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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Put them in jail.
(b) Charged them with heavy fines.
(c) Revoked their passports.
(d) Denounced them in the press.

2. Who was branch chief that offered James Williams a place on his team?
(a) John Becker.
(b) R.T. Jones.
(c) Jaybird.
(d) Kaz.

3. How did the engineers in Flight Research and PARD learn about space flight?
(a) They used information the CIA had stolen from Russia.
(b) They attended courses at Hampton Institute.
(c) They started a self-education lecture series.
(d) They brought in lead scientists from around the world.

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

5. What part of the Mercury Project did Katherine Goble Johnson request to work on?
(a) The trajectory of the orbital flight.
(b) The landing sequence of the spacecraft.
(c) The formula for the rocket fuel.
(d) The design of the spacecraft.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of the world's population did NACA's chief legal counsel say was "colored" in a memo written in 1956?

2. How long were schools in Prince Edward closed due to defunding to avoid segregation?

3. What was the name of America's first manned space project?

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

5. What happened when Katherine Goble Johnson sat down at a desk in the Flight Research Division on her first day there?

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