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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 made white computers laugh at Mary Jackson?
(a) She made a calculation error.
(b) She was not allowed to sit with them in the cafeteria.
(c) She did not know how to use a calculator.
(d) She asked them where the bathroom was.

2. What was special for the Vaughans and Manns about vacationing at Log Cabin Beach?
(a) Blacks and whites vacationed together there without segregation laws.
(b) Miriam and Dorothy could talk openly about their work.
(c) It was the only place they were able to socialize with one another.
(d) There were no "colored" signs.

3. What state was Katherine Goble Johnson from?
(a) West Virginia.
(b) Virginia.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) North Carolina.

4. What did school boards in the community around Langley do to keep black students from attending white schools after schools were integrated?
(a) They placed black students in lower level classes than white students.
(b) They did not allow black students to participate in extracurricular activities.
(c) They paid "school fees" to the families.
(d) They offered scholarships to black students who graduated from black schools.

5. What instruction did Katherine Goble Johnson give her daughters' principal after her husband died?
(a) Not to give her daughters any special treatment.
(b) To go easy on her grieving daughters.
(c) To avoid talking about her husband's death.
(d) To allow Dorothy Vaughan to pick the children up from school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of the Mercury Project was the team that Dorothy Lee worked on responsible for?

2. Where did Christine Mann Darden attend college?

3. What rumor about the astronauts spread around the Hampton Institute campus?

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

5. Whose work was sabotaged by a mechanic?

(see the answer key)

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