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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the name of the first satellite the Russian's put into orbit?
(a) Red One.
(b) Sputnik.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Mercury.

3. In what Langley building did much of the research surrounding spaceflight take place?
(a) The Activities Building.
(b) Building 1244.
(c) Building 51.
(d) The Space Research Building.

4. What Supreme Court announcement did Katherine Goble Johnson discuss with her male coworkers?
(a) The Rosenberg Trial.
(b) Roe v. Wade.
(c) Brown v. Board of Education.
(d) Plessy v. Ferguson.

5. What did Katherine's analysis of an accident involving a small plane lead to?
(a) Changes to the wing structure of airplanes.
(b) Changes in air traffic regulations to avoid wake turbulence accidents.
(c) A change in the design of small airplanes.
(d) A change in pilot procedures for landing an airplane.

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

3. What was the name of Mary Jackson's son who entered into the soap box derby race?

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

5. What was the name of Katherine Goble Johnson's first husband?

(see the answer key)

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