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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, "The Tears".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What recent invention makes Program Mercury possible at all?
(a) The high-speed, electronic computer.
(b) The high-carbon fuel.
(c) The rocket propulsion system.
(d) The launch software.

2. Sixteen days after Grissom's flight, the Russians launch another cosmonaut into space. How many times does the cosmonaut orbit the Earth before landing?
(a) 4.
(b) 10.
(c) 2.
(d) 17.

3. What is housed at the Holloman Air Force Base?
(a) The chimpanzee colony.
(b) The rocket launchers.
(c) The psychologists' new testing facility.
(d) The mission control center.

4. What record does Bob White set during one of his X-15 flights?
(a) The new speed record.
(b) The new distance record.
(c) The new longest flight duration record.
(d) The new altitude record.

5. After countless delays and several launch attempts, on what day is the manned flight finally launched?
(a) April 1, 1962.
(b) February 20, 1962.
(c) January 23, 1062.
(d) January 1, 1963.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Bob White?

2. What are the pilots known by at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base?

3. What is the concern that controllers have when preparing to bring Glenn back in through the atmosphere?

4. Why does Janet Conrad support her husband's decision to join the astronaut program?

5. What did the astronauts most often hit in the procedures trainer?

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