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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did Dorothy Hoover leave NACA?
(a) To pursue a master's degree in mathematics.
(b) For a better job in another laboratory.
(c) Because she could not advance to an engineering position at NACA.
(d) To get married.

3. At what age did Dorothy Vaughan graduate from high school?
(a) 17.
(b) 18.
(c) 16.
(d) 15.

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

5. Whose family attended a concert with Dorothy Vaughan's family?
(a) Christine Darden's family.
(b) Miriam Mann's family.
(c) Mary Jackson's family.
(d) Margery Hannah's family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did school boards in the community around Langley do to keep black students from attending white schools after schools were integrated?

2. What were the employees at Langley warned against doing outside of the workplace during World War II?

3. What part of the Mercury Project was the team that Dorothy Lee worked on responsible for?

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

5. What innovation was added to the wind tunnels to make them more closely simulate flight conditions?

(see the answer key)

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