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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Mary Jackson see her son's opportunity to build a soap box derby car?
(a) As a way of boosting his self-esteem.
(b) As a waste of time.
(c) As an apprenticeship in engineering.
(d) As a way to show that he could do anything white children could do.

2. What trial was Langley drawn into because of a suspected connection to one of the employees there?
(a) The Rosenberg trial.
(b) The Nuremberg trial.
(c) Roe v. Wade.
(d) Brown v. Board of Education.

3. Who was the man that was promoted to head the Stability Analysis section despite the fact that he had not finished college?
(a) Melvin Butler.
(b) R.T. Jones.
(c) Thomas Byrdsong.
(d) Harry Byrd.

4. Where was Central High School, the white school that was in the news because black students were trying to integrate it?
(a) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
(b) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(c) Miami, Florida.
(d) Austin, Texas.

5. 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?
(a) Put them in jail.
(b) Revoked their passports.
(c) Denounced them in the press.
(d) Charged them with heavy fines.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Dorothy Vaughan find a place to stay when she arrived in Newport News?

3. What made white computers laugh at Mary Jackson?

4. In 1970, what percentage of engineers in America were black?

5. Why did Dorothy Hoover leave NACA?

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