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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who spoke about having a dream at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?
(a) Asa Phillip Randolph.
(b) Katherine Goble Johnson.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

2. What did the local living around Langley Research Center call the people who worked at Langley because of their eccentric behavior?
(a) Space cadets.
(b) NACA nerds.
(c) Airheads.
(d) NACA nuts.

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

4. What was the name of Katherine Goble Johnson's first husband?
(a) Howard.
(b) Jimmy.
(c) William.
(d) James.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Christine Mann Darden's job when she was in high school?

2. In the early 1960s how many black women at Langley were engineers?

3. Why did Dorothy Hoover leave NACA?

4. Which group at Langley had already developed expertise in rockets when the space race began?

5. What was Howard Vaughan's job?

(see the answer key)

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