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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 rumor about the astronauts spread around the Hampton Institute campus?
(a) That the astronauts were contributing to the students' organizing for social change.
(b) That there would be a black man on the first space flight.
(c) That they were racist.
(d) That the astronauts were going to join the lunch counter sit ins.

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

3. Where did Dorothy Vaughan and her husband live after marrying?
(a) Newport News.
(b) Little Rock.
(c) Farmville.
(d) Hampton.

4. What was Kaz's response when Mary told him about being laughed at by the white computers?
(a) He laughed at her.
(b) He invited her to come and work for him.
(c) He reprimanded the white computers.
(d) He told her that if she did not like being laughed at, she should work somewhere else.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the engineers in Flight Research and PARD learn about space flight?

2. How did Mary Jackson see her son's opportunity to build a soap box derby car?

3. Where was Central High School, the white school that was in the news because black students were trying to integrate it?

4. How long were schools in Prince Edward closed due to defunding to avoid segregation?

5. What did the personnel officer know would be necessary if he were to hire black women to work at Langley?

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