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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 did the researchers at Langley use to gain test results without the dangers of test flights?
(a) Computer simulations.
(b) Wind tunnels.
(c) Unmanned aircrafts.
(d) Ground models.

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

3. What was the purpose of the document titled "Introduction to Outer Space" that was prepared by President Eisenhower's Advisory Committee on Science?
(a) The document was used as a recruiting tool for NASA.
(b) The document was used in high schools to teach space science.
(c) The document explained spaceflight in layman's terms to make the case that a space program was in America's best interests.
(d) The document was used as a teaching tool for new engineers.

4. Besides fearing an attack, what bothered Americans about Russia launching Sputnik?
(a) Americans were only weeks away from launching a manned spacecraft.
(b) Americans believed Russia was using the satellite to monitor their communications.
(c) Americans were humiliated that Russia had beat them to space.
(d) Americans believed Russia had stolen plans for its satellite from America.

5. How many freedoms did President Roosevelt say that all men were entitled to in his 1941 State of the Union address?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Ten.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Executive Order desegregated the military?

2. How did President Eisenhower want America's first spaceflight to be perceived?

3. What rumor about the astronauts spread around the Hampton Institute campus?

4. What did Executive Order 10925, signed by President Kennedy, call for?

5. How old was Christine Mann Darden when she started the second grade?

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