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

2. What did the "X" in the designation of an airplane signify?
(a) That it was a fighter plane.
(b) That it was a bomber.
(c) That it was experimental.
(d) That it was a cargo plane.

3. Why was Katherine Goble Johnson unable to go to the editorial meetings?
(a) Because she was not an engineer.
(b) Because they did not pertain to her work.
(c) Because she was black.
(d) Because she was female.

4. What was the name of Senator Byrd's movement against integration?
(a) School Safety.
(b) Massive Resistance.
(c) White Power.
(d) Rightful Resistance.

5. Why did Dorothy Vaughan believe the West Computers would need to learn to use the electronic computers?
(a) The East Computers would take their jobs if they did not learn to use them.
(b) The electronic computers would eventually replace them, so they would need to be able to use them to keep their jobs.
(c) Their male coworkers would think they were not capable if they did not learn to use them.
(d) Their male coworkers would not learn to use the electronic computers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose work was sabotaged by a mechanic?

2. Where was the secret bunker for politicians to be evacuated to in the event of a Russian attack?

3. Where did Katherine Goble Johnson meet her second husband?

4. In what year did NACA become NASA?

5. What event caused the need for Langley to initially hire black women?

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