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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. What was special about Mary Jackson's son winning the soap box derby?
(a) Mary was the first mother to help her son in the derby.
(b) It was the last soap box derby ever held.
(c) He was awarded a scholarship to attend college.
(d) He was the first black boy to win the peninsula's competition.

2. What part of the Mercury Project was the team that Dorothy Lee worked on responsible for?
(a) The trajectory of the flight.
(b) The design of the spacecraft.
(c) The rockets.
(d) The orbital path.

3. What was the name of the white woman who went with Mary Jackson to speak to a group of black female students about science and engineering careers?
(a) Margery Hannah.
(b) Emily Jamison.
(c) Blanche Sponsler.
(d) Emma Jean Landrum.

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

5. What did the reporter who interviewed Dorothy Lee say that women had to work like?
(a) Men.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Mules.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Mary Jackson's calculations come up wrong when she was given an assignment by the chief of the Compressibility Division?

2. Who was the head computer when Langley began hiring black women?

3. What did the students in Christine Mann Darden's high school worry about when they heard the Brown v. Board of Education decision?

4. Who was branch chief that offered James Williams a place on his team?

5. What position did the hotel Katherine worked at while in high school move her to to take advantage of her charisma?

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