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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following planes was used in the bombing of Japan?
(a) North American P-51 Mustang.
(b) Boeing B-29 Superfortress.
(c) Douglas C-47 Skytrain.
(d) Chance Vaught F4U Corsair.

2. Who was the man that was promoted to head the Stability Analysis section despite the fact that he had not finished college?
(a) Melvin Butler.
(b) Harry Byrd.
(c) R.T. Jones.
(d) Thomas Byrdsong.

3. How did Katherine Goble Johnson gain access to the editorial meetings?
(a) She went to her supervisor and complained.
(b) She just walked into a meeting one day.
(c) She went to the head of her department and made her case to be allowed to attend.
(d) She kept asking to attend until her male coworkers gave in.

4. 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 nuts.
(c) Airheads.
(d) NACA nerds.

5. What did Langley do in hopes of turning the computers into junior engineers?
(a) Paired them up with engineers who acted as mentors.
(b) Sponsored a course in engineering physics.
(c) Required them to take classes at the local college.
(d) Paid for computers to go back to college.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Mary Jackson's calculations come up wrong when she was given an assignment by the chief of the Compressibility Division?

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

3. Where did NASA move the space program to in anticipation of the large number of people needed to accomplish the manned orbital flight?

4. How many more children did Dorothy and Howard Vaughan have after Dorothy moved to Newport News?

5. What was Katherine Goble Johnson's relationship with her white male coworkers like?

(see the answer key)

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