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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 does NASA stand for?
(a) National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
(b) Newport Aeronautical and Science Administration.
(c) New Airplane Science Administration.
(d) National Aero Space Alliance.

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

3. What percentage of the world's population did NACA's chief legal counsel say was "colored" in a memo written in 1956?
(a) 55%.
(b) 75%.
(c) 80%.
(d) 46%.

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

5. Why did Mary Jackson's calculations come up wrong when she was given an assignment by the chief of the Compressibility Division?
(a) The equation she was asked to use was incorrect.
(b) She had made a simple math error.
(c) He had given her the wrong numbers to use for the calculations.
(d) There was an error made in the research phase.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Margery Hannah treat the black computers?

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

3. What was Asa Phillip Randolph's position when he threatened to lead a march on Washington if war jobs were not opened to blacks?

4. Why did Dorothy Vaughan go to speak with the division chief of The Flight Research Division?

5. Who was the first human in space?

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