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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Gumshoes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the beginning of Part 2: Preliminaries, Richard states that he'd be talking a lot about what?
(a) The Kennedy Space Center.
(b) O-rings.
(c) NASA.
(d) Thiokol.

2. What is located at the front of the space shuttle orbiter?
(a) The fuel rockets.
(b) The engines.
(c) The cargo bay.
(d) The place where the crew sits.

3. What was the name of the man who took the temperature readings the morning of the launch?
(a) Richard Rogers.
(b) Charlie Stevenson.
(c) B.K. Davis.
(d) William Burns.

4. The meeting that the commission attended when they first arrived in Florida lasted until when?
(a) 5:00 PM.
(b) 7:30 PM.
(c) 6:45 PM.
(d) 8:00 PM.

5. The temperature was measured in the air, the rocket, the ground, the ice, and even a puddle of slush with what in it?
(a) Salt.
(b) Oil.
(c) Rocks.
(d) Antifreeze.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did commission member Al Keel come from?

2. Richard told the women who were protesting that they should be concerned about the cop in his story. Why?

3. When Charlie Stevenson was explaining the temperatures before the launch, how low of a temperature did his crew get a reading of?

4. Richard tells a story about an old friend in Los Alamos calling him to tell him some sad news. The sad news was that who had died?

5. When Richard was studying counting and the different things he can do while counting, he discovered that no one can do what while counting?

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