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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-23, Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the name of the first satellite the Russian's put into orbit?
(a) Red One.
(b) Sputnik.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Mercury.

3. What did Executive Order 10925, signed by President Kennedy, call for?
(a) Abolition of the Jim Crow laws.
(b) Desegregation of the military.
(c) Desegregation of schools.
(d) Affirmative action.

4. In 1970, what percentage of engineers in America were black?
(a) 25%.
(b) 1%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 5%.

5. How did Leonard Vaughan and the other black children ensure they would get the pond to themselves?
(a) Intimidate the white children.
(b) Get their first.
(c) Wait for the white children to leave.
(d) Put a fake "colored only" sign on the shore.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Katherine Goble Johnson consider her greatest contribution to the space program?

2. What was the name of the senator from Virginia who vehemently opposed the Fair Employment Practices Committee?

3. Who was cheered by the black community following the Mercury mission?

4. Why did Dorothy Hoover leave NACA?

5. How far off from its targeted landing spot was the landing of the Mercury capsule?

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