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

2. What rumor about the astronauts spread around the Hampton Institute campus?
(a) That they were racist.
(b) That there would be a black man on the first space flight.
(c) That the astronauts were contributing to the students' organizing for social change.
(d) That the astronauts were going to join the lunch counter sit ins.

3. Which group at Langley had already developed expertise in rockets when the space race began?
(a) The Materials Research Division.
(b) The Flight Research Division.
(c) The Formal Methods Research Group.
(d) PARD.

4. Why did Mary Jackson return home after her first year as a teacher?
(a) To care for her ill father.
(b) To pursue a graduate degree.
(c) She had been fired for expecting too much from her students.
(d) Because she did not like teaching.

5. What did Dorothy Vaughan do in the summer of 1944 to make her situation more permanent?
(a) Signed a contract with Langley.
(b) Became a member of the church she had been attending.
(c) Divorced her husband.
(d) Signed a lease on a house.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Margery Hannah treat the black computers?

2. What was the first machine used at Langley to perform computations?

3. How many freedoms did President Roosevelt say that all men were entitled to in his 1941 State of the Union address?

4. What was Dorothy Vaughan's connection to Katherine Goble Johnson before working at Langley?

5. What was the name of the first satellite the Russian's put into orbit?

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