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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, "The Tears".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is in charge of testing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base?
(a) General Schwickenberg.
(b) Psychiatrists.
(c) The Secretary of the Navy.
(d) NASA engineers.

2. What do the Project Mercury engineers think will be an easy task?
(a) Training the astronauts.
(b) Recovering the capsule after it splashed down.
(c) Launching the rockets.
(d) Controlling the capsule while in space.

3. What record does Bob White set during one of his X-15 flights?
(a) The new longest flight duration record.
(b) The new distance record.
(c) The new speed record.
(d) The new altitude record.

4. What recent invention makes Program Mercury possible at all?
(a) The high-speed, electronic computer.
(b) The high-carbon fuel.
(c) The launch software.
(d) The rocket propulsion system.

5. Why does the unmanned flight receive very little public attention?
(a) The public doesn't believe NASA can pull it off.
(b) The Russians beat the Americans to the punch again.
(c) The public is tired of test flights.
(d) The Beatles are making their first US tour.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Bob White?

2. What is housed at the Holloman Air Force Base?

3. What political event leads to Project Mercury being thought of, for the first time, as potentially expendable?

4. Why do the astronauts spend so much time in the procedures trainer?

5. Why do the pilots report to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base?

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