CHAPTERS 9-16
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- Q1Who was the first African-American to leave the computing pool?Dorothy VaughanMary JacksonDorothy HooverKatherine Johnson30s
- Q2On October 14, 1947 who was the first pilot to fly over the Mojave Desert?Chuck YeagerKatherine JohnsonDorothy HooverMary Jackson30s
- Q3What is the term for something moving faster than sound?Mach 1Sonic 1Super SonicBell-X30s
- Q4How many miles per hour is the speed of sound?760 mph100 mph500 mph900 mph30s
- Q5What was Langley's mission?to build brick housesto build space shipsto build cruise shipsto build the fastest airplane in the world--that is faster than the speed of sound30s
- Q6What conflict did the U.S. enter in 1950?the War on TerrorWorld War IWorld War IIthe Korean War30s
- Q7What occurs when a plane pushes through the sound barrier?a sonic boomMach 7a supersonic boomMach 530s
- Q8What is hypersonic speed?Flight that travels at Mach 3Flight that travels at Mach 1Flight that tavels in spaceFlight that travels faster than Mach 530s
- Q9What 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 wara war fought on landopposing powers fighting against each other30s
- Q10What is supersonic?Flight that travels at specified timesFlight that travels faster than Mach 5Flight through undetermined spacesFlight that travels faster than Mach 1 but slower than Mach 530s
- Q11Who wrote about the "dead weight of social degradation in his book, The Souls of Black Folk?Booker T. WashingtonMartin Luther King, Jr.W. E. B. Du BoisRichard Wright30s
- Q12What is the meaning of blatant?secretclosedhiddenopen/obvious30s
- Q13What happened to the man who disrespected Katherine?She married himHe hanged himselfHe became Katherine's bitter enemyHe became Katherine's friend`30s
- Q14What was the brand name of the computer Langley purchased?DellHewlett PackardIBMEpson30s
- Q15What Supreme Court case ended segregation in schools?Brown vs. Board of EducationMorgan vs. United StatesGreen vs. Board of EducationMorgan vs. Virginia30s