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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 Matilda West, the black employee who was fired for disloyalty, related to?
(a) Dorothy Vaughan.
(b) Mary Jackson.
(c) Miriam Mann.
(d) Katherine Goble Johnson.

2. What was the name of Senator Byrd's movement against integration?
(a) School Safety.
(b) Rightful Resistance.
(c) Massive Resistance.
(d) White Power.

3. Who was the professor that mentored Katherine Goble Johnson while she was in college?
(a) Asa Phillips Randolph.
(b) W.E.B. DuBois.
(c) William Claytor.
(d) John Henrik Clarke.

4. Why did Dorothy Hoover leave NACA?
(a) Because she could not advance to an engineering position at NACA.
(b) For a better job in another laboratory.
(c) To get married.
(d) To pursue a master's degree in mathematics.

5. How old was Katherine Goble Johnson when she entered college?
(a) 22.
(b) 19.
(c) 15.
(d) 17.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What effect did V-J day have on the workforce in the area surrounding Langley?

3. What Supreme Court announcement did Katherine Goble Johnson discuss with her male coworkers?

4. Why was Katherine Goble Johnson unable to go to the editorial meetings?

5. What trial was Langley drawn into because of a suspected connection to one of the employees there?

(see the answer key)

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