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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the name of Langley Research Center's newsletter?
(a) Research Reporter.
(b) The Flyer.
(c) Air Scoop.
(d) NACA Notes.

3. What was the name of the pilot who broke the sound barrier?
(a) Harry Byrd.
(b) Thomas Byrdsong.
(c) Chuck Yeager.
(d) John Glenn.

4. 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) Charged them with heavy fines.
(c) Put them in jail.
(d) Revoked their passports.

5. Who was West Computing's section head when Dorothy Vaughan first came to Langley?
(a) Virginia Tucker.
(b) Blanche Sponsler.
(c) Margery Hannah.
(d) Miriam Mann.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the original name of NASA?

2. Why did the NAACP file a lawsuit against Booker T. Washington High School in Virginia?

3. What were the segregation laws called?

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

5. What did Katherine's analysis of an accident involving a small plane lead to?

(see the answer key)

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