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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 innovation was added to the wind tunnels to make them more closely simulate flight conditions?
(a) A sloped floor.
(b) Sloped walls.
(c) A solid ceiling.
(d) Slotted walls.

2. What did Langley's Analysis and Computation Division do?
(a) Caused the human computers at Langley to lose their jobs.
(b) Separated the black women computers from their engineering groups.
(c) Introduced male computers to Langley.
(d) Integrated black and white female computers into one group.

3. Whose work was sabotaged by a mechanic?
(a) Thomas Byrdsong's work.
(b) Mary Jackson's work.
(c) Katherine Goble Johnson's work.
(d) Kaz Czarnecki's work.

4. How did Dorothy Vaughan reinvent her career after the Analysis and Computation Division was created?
(a) She went back to teaching school.
(b) She became an engineer.
(c) She became a computer programmer.
(d) She became the head of the division.

5. Why was it difficult for Mary Jackson to attend engineering classes at Hampton High School?
(a) The school was segregated.
(b) The classes were not open to women.
(c) Her supervisor had to give her permission to attend an engineering class.
(d) She had to walk there.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which Executive Order desegregated the military?

4. Which of the following planes was used in the bombing of Japan?

5. Who was the singer that Dorothy Vaughan took her children to see at Ogden Hall?

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