The Right Stuff | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Chapter 1, "The Angels"

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

They are trying to figure out who's husband was killed.

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

The Navy sends a man with official or moral authority to the house.

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

20.

4. In what year does the story begin?

1955.

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

The door bell.

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

Florida.

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

Because he is entering the Navy's test-pilot school.

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