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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Richard was little and in a high chair, what did his father bring home for him to play with that were of various colors?
(a) Balloons.
(b) Bathroom tiles.
(c) Blocks.
(d) Pencils.

2. What is located behind the area where the crew sits on a space shuttle?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The cargo bay.
(c) The engines.
(d) The fuel rockets.

3. Richard talks about "contemporaries" of his that he hung out with. He mentions that Harold Gast and David Leff were what "types" of people?
(a) Sports types.
(b) Scientific types.
(c) Literary types.
(d) Math types.

4. The instruction manual to the device the ice crew used for measuring the temperatures said that the instrument must be out in the environment for at least how many minutes before using?
(a) 20.
(b) 10.
(c) 15.
(d) 25.

5. Where did commission member Al Keel come from?
(a) Yale University.
(b) New York City.
(c) The White House.
(d) Thiokol.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is located at the back end of the space shuttle orbiter?

2. Mr. Ullian calculated how much of a chance of failure?

3. Who told Richard that they also had a cousin in the press?

4. When Richard was walking his first date home, he complimented her on her pretty what?

5. How many co-chairmen assisted Richard during the conference in Kyoto?

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