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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position did the hotel Katherine worked at while in high school move her to to take advantage of her charisma?
(a) Bellhop.
(b) Waitress.
(c) Maid.
(d) Store clerk.

2. What Supreme Court announcement did Katherine Goble Johnson discuss with her male coworkers?
(a) Roe v. Wade.
(b) The Rosenberg Trial.
(c) Brown v. Board of Education.
(d) Plessy v. Ferguson.

3. Why did the NAACP file a lawsuit against Booker T. Washington High School in Virginia?
(a) They would not hire black teachers.
(b) They were not offering black students the same opportunities as white students.
(c) They were paying black teachers less than white teachers.
(d) They were not allowing black students to attend classes there.

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

5. Who was the division chief of The Flight Research Division when Katherine Goble Johnson was sent to work there?
(a) James William.
(b) John Becker.
(c) Henry Pearson.
(d) R. T. Jones.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many students were killed in the bus crash at Moton High School?

2. How old was Christine Mann Darden when she started the second grade?

3. What part of the Mercury Project did Katherine Goble Johnson request to work on?

4. What did the local living around Langley Research Center call the people who worked at Langley because of their eccentric behavior?

5. What did Dorothy Vaughan do in the summer of 1944 to make her situation more permanent?

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