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Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Chapter 1, "The Angels"

1. Why are the wives calling each other at the beginning of the story?

2. How are wives notified if their husband is injured or killed during a test flight?

3. How many test pilots are in the original group in Jacksonville?

4. In what year does the story begin?

5. What is the one sound that test pilots' wives are most afraid of?

6. When the book begins, where is the Naval Air Station that Pete Conrad is stationed at?

7. Why is Pete Conrad transferred to the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland?

8. What is the nickname given to Pete's flight test class?

9. What does "pushing the outside of the...
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