View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-23, Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does NASA stand for?
(a) National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
(b) Newport Aeronautical and Science Administration.
(c) National Aero Space Alliance.
(d) New Airplane Science Administration.

2. Who led the protest at Cape Kennedy in the days before the launch of the flight to the moon?
(a) Reverend Ralph Abernathy.
(b) Malcolm X.
(c) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Asa Phillip Randolph.

3. Who was the head computer when Langley began hiring black women?
(a) Virginia Tucker.
(b) Blanche Sponsler.
(c) Dorothy Vaughan.
(d) Mary Jackson.

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

5. Where did NASA move the space program to in anticipation of the large number of people needed to accomplish the manned orbital flight?
(a) Langley.
(b) California.
(c) Kennedy Space Center.
(d) Houston.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Margery Hannah treat the black computers?

2. What instruction did Katherine Goble Johnson give her daughters' principal after her husband died?

3. Why did Mary Jackson return home after her first year as a teacher?

4. Who completed the double-check of the trajectory for the Mercury flight?

5. Why was it a challenge for black boys to enter into the All-American Soap Box Derby?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 325 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample