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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 singer that Dorothy Vaughan took her children to see at Ogden Hall?
(a) Marian Anderson.
(b) Lena Horne.
(c) Ellah Fitzgerald.
(d) Billie Holiday.

2. What neighborhood near Langley did Dorothy Vaughan eventually permanently settle in?
(a) Copeland Park.
(b) Newsome Park.
(c) Aberdeen Gardens.
(d) Stuart Gardens.

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

4. How had Katherine Goble Johnson's father taught her to treat other people?
(a) As equals.
(b) As superiors to herself.
(c) As inferior to herself.
(d) As strangers to be wary of.

5. What made white computers laugh at Mary Jackson?
(a) She asked them where the bathroom was.
(b) She did not know how to use a calculator.
(c) She was not allowed to sit with them in the cafeteria.
(d) She made a calculation error.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did President Eisenhower want America's first spaceflight to be perceived?

2. What was the purpose of the document titled "Introduction to Outer Space" that was prepared by President Eisenhower's Advisory Committee on Science?

3. How many more children did Dorothy and Howard Vaughan have after Dorothy moved to Newport News?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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