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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 were the Greensboro Four?
(a) Students who sat at a segregated lunch counter.
(b) Engineers who designed the Mercury capsule.
(c) Four women in West Computing who were all from Greensboro.
(d) Black leaders who helped integrate schools.

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

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

4. What rumor about the astronauts spread around the Hampton Institute campus?
(a) That the astronauts were contributing to the students' organizing for social change.
(b) That they were racist.
(c) That there would be a black man on the first space flight.
(d) That the astronauts were going to join the lunch counter sit ins.

5. What did the reporter who interviewed Dorothy Lee say that women had to work like?
(a) Men.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Mules.
(d) Dogs.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did NACA become NASA?

2. What important research had the men in The Flight Research Division presented just weeks before Katherine Goble Johnson was sent to work there?

3. What did the "X" in the designation of an airplane signify?

4. Why did Dorothy Vaughan believe the West Computers would need to learn to use the electronic computers?

5. What was special for the Vaughans and Manns about vacationing at Log Cabin Beach?

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