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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. What did the researchers at Langley use to gain test results without the dangers of test flights?
(a) Unmanned aircrafts.
(b) Wind tunnels.
(c) Computer simulations.
(d) Ground models.

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

3. Why was it difficult for Mary Jackson to attend engineering classes at Hampton High School?
(a) She had to walk there.
(b) The school was segregated.
(c) The classes were not open to women.
(d) Her supervisor had to give her permission to attend an engineering class.

4. Where was Central High School, the white school that was in the news because black students were trying to integrate it?
(a) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(b) Austin, Texas.
(c) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
(d) Miami, Florida.

5. What part of Langley did the black computers work in?
(a) North Area.
(b) South Area.
(c) West Area.
(d) East Area.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did members in the black community who supported the space program dislike about the program?

2. What was the purpose of the document titled "Introduction to Outer Space" that was prepared by President Eisenhower's Advisory Committee on Science?

3. What did Dorothy Vaughan do in the summer of 1944 to make her situation more permanent?

4. How did Dorothy Vaughan reinvent her career after the Analysis and Computation Division was created?

5. Where did Katherine Goble Johnson meet her second husband?

(see the answer key)

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