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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) Eight.
(b) Ten.
(c) Seven.
(d) Five.

2. Where did Christine Mann Darden attend college?
(a) Howard University.
(b) Virginia State University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Hampton Institute.

3. What percentage of the world's population did NACA's chief legal counsel say was "colored" in a memo written in 1956?
(a) 46%.
(b) 75%.
(c) 80%.
(d) 55%.

4. What was Katherine Goble Johnson's relationship with her white male coworkers like?
(a) She was comfortable with them.
(b) They overworked her.
(c) They treated her as though she were beneath them.
(d) She was never able to be herself around them.

5. What was the name of Mary Jackson's son who entered into the soap box derby race?
(a) Leonard.
(b) Levi.
(c) Arthur.
(d) William.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who coauthored Mary Jackson's first report?

2. What happened when Katherine Goble Johnson sat down at a desk in the Flight Research Division on her first day there?

3. What were the employees at Langley warned against doing outside of the workplace during World War II?

4. What Supreme Court announcement did Katherine Goble Johnson discuss with her male coworkers?

5. How were black people expected to enter a bus due to segregation laws?

(see the answer key)

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