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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 134-206.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joan have for dinner the first night of astronaut candidate training?
(a) TV dinner at home.
(b) Pizza.
(c) Chicken marsala at a restaurant.
(d) Chinese takeout.

2. In 1979, how fast would shuttles travel?
(a) 5 miles a second.
(b) 3 miles a second.
(c) 2 miles a second.
(d) 10 miles a second.

3. How much of a gap in the payload doors is there after Vanessa attempts to tighten the latches?
(a) 2 centimeters.
(b) 1 centimeter.
(c) 2 1/2 centimeters.
(d) 1 1/2 centimeters.

4. How is the one-year mark of the ASCANs' training marked?
(a) Camping trip at the lake.
(b) A day at the zoo.
(c) Catered dinner at mission control.
(d) A day at an amusement park.

5. When Vanessa is informed of Griff's death, how long has he been dead?
(a) 23 minutes.
(b) 12 minutes.
(c) 17 minutes.
(d) 9 minutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. As mission specialists, how many hours of flight time are required monthly?

2. How much older was Steve than Vanessa?

3. How many Black men are in Group 8?

4. Where are Joan and other mission specialists sent to learn how to bail out over the ocean?

5. For what birthday did Joan want her parents to buy her a Unitron telescope?

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