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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. Why was there sometimes confusion over Katherine Goble Johnson's race?
(a) She had blue eyes.
(b) She was also of Chinese descent.
(c) She was very light-skinned.
(d) Her personality made people forget to think about her skin color.

2. Where did Dorothy Vaughan and her husband live after marrying?
(a) Newport News.
(b) Little Rock.
(c) Farmville.
(d) Hampton.

3. What was the name of Senator Byrd's movement against integration?
(a) Rightful Resistance.
(b) White Power.
(c) School Safety.
(d) Massive Resistance.

4. Who returned to work at NASA after completing her graduate work in mathematics?
(a) Dorothy Vaughan.
(b) Katherine Goble Johnson.
(c) Miriam Mann.
(d) Dorothy Hoover.

5. Who coauthored Mary Jackson's first report?
(a) R.T. Jones.
(b) Katherine Goble Johnson.
(c) Kaz Czarnecki.
(d) Dorothy Vaughan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event made Dorothy Vaughan decide that going to graduate school would be economically irresponsible?

2. What did the U.S. government do to prevent black leaders like Josephine Baker and W.E.B. Du Bois from having an impact on relations with newly independent countries?

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

4. What did James Thompson call the idea that black Americans had to fight in the war for victory overseas and at home for victory over oppression?

5. What did black newspapers call the black soldiers who fought overseas during World War II?

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