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

2. What did the researchers at Langley use to gain test results without the dangers of test flights?
(a) Ground models.
(b) Unmanned aircrafts.
(c) Wind tunnels.
(d) Computer simulations.

3. 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.

4. What part of Langley did the black computers work in?
(a) South Area.
(b) North Area.
(c) West Area.
(d) East Area.

5. What was the name of Langley Research Center's newsletter?
(a) NACA Notes.
(b) Research Reporter.
(c) The Flyer.
(d) Air Scoop.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose family attended a concert with Dorothy Vaughan's family?

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

3. In what Langley building did much of the research surrounding spaceflight take place?

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

5. Who coauthored Mary Jackson's first report?

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