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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did NASA move the space program to in anticipation of the large number of people needed to accomplish the manned orbital flight?
(a) Langley.
(b) Kennedy Space Center.
(c) Houston.
(d) California.

2. Which of the following was a skill Dorothy Vaughan had to have to do her job as a supervisor well?
(a) The ability to shrug off discriminatory remarks made by the East Computers.
(b) The ability to circumvent the management system.
(c) The ability to match temperaments with groups.
(d) The ability to coddle the women under her.

3. How did President Eisenhower want America's first spaceflight to be perceived?
(a) As a show of America's superior technology.
(b) As a peaceful mission.
(c) As an act of military strength.
(d) As a secretive mission.

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

5. In what Langley building did much of the research surrounding spaceflight take place?
(a) Building 51.
(b) The Space Research Building.
(c) Building 1244.
(d) The Activities Building.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Executive Order 10925, signed by President Kennedy, call for?

2. What was the name of Katherine Goble Johnson's first husband?

3. Where was Katherine Goble Johnson when she found out about the jobs available at Langley for black women?

4. How did Mary Jackson see her son's opportunity to build a soap box derby car?

5. Why was it a challenge for black boys to enter into the All-American Soap Box Derby?

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