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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the singer that Dorothy Vaughan took her children to see at Ogden Hall?
(a) Ellah Fitzgerald.
(b) Billie Holiday.
(c) Lena Horne.
(d) Marian Anderson.

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

3. What did Katherine Goble Johnson's husband die from?
(a) A brain tumor.
(b) Malaria.
(c) A heart attack.
(d) Tuberculosis.

4. What was the name of the senator from Virginia who vehemently opposed the Fair Employment Practices Committee?
(a) Harry Byrd.
(b) Melvin Butler.
(c) Thomas Byrdsong.
(d) Woodrow Wilson.

5. What important research had the men in The Flight Research Division presented just weeks before Katherine Goble Johnson was sent to work there?
(a) Research on slotted wind tunnel walls.
(b) Research on the control of fighter planes.
(c) Research on air turbulence.
(d) Research on space flight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the original name of NASA?

2. 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?

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. In what year did the first female computing pool begin working at Langley?

5. What oath did Dorothy Vaughan have to take upon beginning her job at Langley?

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