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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the man that was promoted to head the Stability Analysis section despite the fact that he had not finished college?
(a) Melvin Butler.
(b) Thomas Byrdsong.
(c) R.T. Jones.
(d) Harry Byrd.

2. What was Christine Mann Darden's job when she was in high school?
(a) She worked in a laundromat.
(b) She worked in a library.
(c) She worked as maid in a hotel.
(d) She worked in an antiques store at a hotel.

3. What instruction did Katherine Goble Johnson give her daughters' principal after her husband died?
(a) To avoid talking about her husband's death.
(b) To go easy on her grieving daughters.
(c) Not to give her daughters any special treatment.
(d) To allow Dorothy Vaughan to pick the children up from school.

4. What did Executive Order 10925, signed by President Kennedy, call for?
(a) Abolition of the Jim Crow laws.
(b) Desegregation of the military.
(c) Affirmative action.
(d) Desegregation of schools.

5. What did the local living around Langley Research Center call the people who worked at Langley because of their eccentric behavior?
(a) NACA nerds.
(b) Airheads.
(c) NACA nuts.
(d) Space cadets.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was a skill Dorothy Vaughan had to have to do her job as a supervisor well?

2. Why was it difficult for Mary Jackson to attend engineering classes at Hampton High School?

3. What did Shetterly say was one of Katherine Goble Johnson's "great talents?"

4. Why did Mary Jackson return home after her first year as a teacher?

5. What did the students in Christine Mann Darden's high school worry about when they heard the Brown v. Board of Education decision?

(see the answer key)

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