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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does NASA stand for?
(a) Newport Aeronautical and Science Administration.
(b) New Airplane Science Administration.
(c) National Aero Space Alliance.
(d) National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

3. What was the first machine used at Langley to perform computations?
(a) An Apple computer.
(b) A Bell calculator.
(c) An IBM computer.
(d) An abacus.

4. Why did Dorothy Vaughan go to speak with the division chief of The Flight Research Division?
(a) To recommend that he hire Mary Jackson.
(b) To discuss the way Katherine Goble Johnson had been treated by the male engineers.
(c) To clarify Katherine Goble Johnson's position as a member of West Computing or as a permanent member of Flight Research.
(d) To request a raise.

5. What did the U.S. government do to prevent black leaders like Josephine Baker and W.E.B. Du Bois from having an impact on relations with newly independent countries?
(a) Denounced them in the press.
(b) Revoked their passports.
(c) Put them in jail.
(d) Charged them with heavy fines.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the man that was promoted to head the Stability Analysis section despite the fact that he had not finished college?

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

3. Why was there sometimes confusion over Katherine Goble Johnson's race?

4. Whose family attended a concert with Dorothy Vaughan's family?

5. What was the name of the first satellite the Russian's put into orbit?

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