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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 old was Christine Mann Darden when she started the second grade?
(a) Five.
(b) Seven.
(c) Eight.
(d) Ten.

2. What did James Williams have to do on his first day of work at Langley?
(a) Prove that he had an engineering degree.
(b) Take a test to prove he had the necessary skills to work there.
(c) Convince the guards at the gate that he was an engineer.
(d) Deal with a mechanic who sabotaged his work.

3. In what year did NACA become NASA?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1963.

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

5. What did the students in Christine Mann Darden's high school worry about when they heard the Brown v. Board of Education decision?
(a) They worried that they would be forced to move to where they could go to white schools.
(b) They worried that their school would be closed.
(c) They worried that their white classmates would be angry if the black students got better grades.
(d) They worried they would not be able to compete with white students.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the professor that mentored Katherine Goble Johnson while she was in college?

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

3. Where did Dorothy Vaughan and her husband live after marrying?

4. Why was it a challenge for black boys to enter into the All-American Soap Box Derby?

5. What did school boards in the community around Langley do to keep black students from attending white schools after schools were integrated?

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