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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Langley employees hold meetings and social gatherings in their own Activities Building in the 1950s?
(a) So they could avoid trying to find a public building that would allow a racially mixed group.
(b) Because it was the only building in the area large enough to accommodate them.
(c) Because they did not want people outside the laboratory to hear what they talked about.
(d) Because it was the nicest building in the area.

2. What important research had the men in The Flight Research Division presented just weeks before Katherine Goble Johnson was sent to work there?
(a) Research on air turbulence.
(b) Research on the control of fighter planes.
(c) Research on space flight.
(d) Research on slotted wind tunnel walls.

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

4. What was the name of the pilot who broke the sound barrier?
(a) Thomas Byrdsong.
(b) Chuck Yeager.
(c) Harry Byrd.
(d) John Glenn.

5. What Supreme Court announcement did Katherine Goble Johnson discuss with her male coworkers?
(a) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(b) The Rosenberg Trial.
(c) Roe v. Wade.
(d) Brown v. Board of Education.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Katherine Goble Johnson when she entered college?

2. What was Katherine Goble Johnson's relationship with her white male coworkers like?

3. What was the name of the personnel officer at Langley Research Center when Dorothy Vaughan began working there?

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

5. What does NASA stand for?

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