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CHAPTERS 9-16

Quiz by Bernice Broussard

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  • Q1
    Who was the first African-American to leave the computing pool?
    Dorothy Vaughan
    Mary Jackson
    Dorothy Hoover
    Katherine Johnson
    30s
  • Q2
    On October 14, 1947 who was the first pilot to fly over the Mojave Desert?
    Chuck Yeager
    Katherine Johnson
    Dorothy Hoover
    Mary Jackson
    30s
  • Q3
    What is the term for something moving faster than sound?
    Mach 1
    Sonic 1
    Super Sonic
    Bell-X
    30s
  • Q4
    How many miles per hour is the speed of sound?
    760 mph
    100 mph
    500 mph
    900 mph
    30s
  • Q5
    What was Langley's mission?
    to build brick houses
    to build space ships
    to build cruise ships
    to build the fastest airplane in the world--that is faster than the speed of sound
    30s
  • Q6
    What conflict did the U.S. enter in 1950?
    the War on Terror
    World War I
    World War II
    the Korean War
    30s
  • Q7
    What occurs when a plane pushes through the sound barrier?
    a sonic boom
    Mach 7
    a supersonic boom
    Mach 5
    30s
  • Q8
    What is hypersonic speed?
    Flight that travels at Mach 3
    Flight that travels at Mach 1
    Flight that tavels in space
    Flight that travels faster than Mach 5
    30s
  • Q9
    What is a proxy war?
    An armed conflict instigated by opposing powers who have conflicting ideologies with each other but who do not fight against each other directly. Instead the powers use third parties to do the fighting for them.
    an imaginary war
    a war fought on land
    opposing powers fighting against each other
    30s
  • Q10
    What is supersonic?
    Flight that travels at specified times
    Flight that travels faster than Mach 5
    Flight through undetermined spaces
    Flight that travels faster than Mach 1 but slower than Mach 5
    30s
  • Q11
    Who wrote about the "dead weight of social degradation in his book, The Souls of Black Folk?
    Booker T. Washington
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
    W. E. B. Du Bois
    Richard Wright
    30s
  • Q12
    What is the meaning of blatant?
    secret
    closed
    hidden
    open/obvious
    30s
  • Q13
    What happened to the man who disrespected Katherine?
    She married him
    He hanged himself
    He became Katherine's bitter enemy
    He became Katherine's friend`
    30s
  • Q14
    What was the brand name of the computer Langley purchased?
    Dell
    Hewlett Packard
    IBM
    Epson
    30s
  • Q15
    What Supreme Court case ended segregation in schools?
    Brown vs. Board of Education
    Morgan vs. United States
    Green vs. Board of Education
    Morgan vs. Virginia
    30s

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