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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many steps lead to the elevator to the launch vehicle?
(a) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 9.
(d) 0.

2. To which of the following is Harris compared?
(a) Tupac.
(b) Elvis.
(c) Michael Jackson.
(d) Prince.

3. Which district in Maine did Gwendy represent in Congress?
(a) Fourth.
(b) Third.
(c) First.
(d) Second.

4. With which of the following does Chapter 9 begin?
(a) “It’s a beautiful April day in Playalinda, Florida, not far from Cape Canaveral.”
(b) “Of course the opposition was laying for her.”
(c) “After Pete Riley’s visit, Gwendy began to read up on Paul Magowan, the Republican junior senator from Maine.”
(d) “Outside the porthole nearest to Gwendy, the sky is now dark.”

5. With which of the following does Chapter 1 begin?
(a) “Eight men and two women walk in a line along the right side of the Tet control center.”
(b) “It’s a beautiful April day in Playalinda, Florida, not far from Cape Canaveral.”
(c) “The service-and-delivery structure beside Eagle Heavy is a crisscross latticework of steel beams housing a huge open elevator.”
(d) “At the top of the gantry there’s a large white room where the space travelers stand, arms raised and doing slow pirouettes, as a disinfecting spray that smells suspiciously like bleach wafts over them.”

Short Answer Questions

1. With which of the following does Chapter 22 begin?

2. Which of the following does Graves call Lundgren?

3. Of what does Gwendy note Adesh smells?

4. What name do the ground and control crews collectively give themselves?

5. With which of the following does Chapter 10 begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what purpose do Lundgren and Drinkwater call Gwendy forward after the space vehicle leaves the atmosphere?

2. What accounts for Gwendy's name?

3. Describe the box Gwendy carries.

4. What basic assumption does Gwendy harbor about the wealthy, to which she thinks Gareth an exception?

5. Summarize Ryan Brown's Black Friday tradition.

6. Why is Gwendy unable to wave to the ground and control crews on her approach to her spacecraft?

7. What news effectively ends Magowan's campaign?

8. What comments are made about the older members of the audience for the space launch?

9. What connection do the Brighams have to the launch?

10. How does Gwendy describe the weather facing the flight crew on liftoff?

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