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

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

3. Who is the scheduled backup astronaut for the first manned orbital flight?
(a) Scott Carpenter.
(b) Deke Slayton.
(c) Gordon Cooper.
(d) Alan Shepard.

4. What is the concern that controllers have when preparing to bring Glenn back in through the atmosphere?
(a) That the capsule will overshoot the planned splash zone.
(b) That the parachute will not deploy.
(c) That the blood pressure monitor is malfunctioning.
(d) That the heat shields are loose.

5. How long is the second Russian cosmonaut in space for?
(a) 10 hours.
(b) 4 hours .
(c) 3 days.
(d) 1 day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What recent invention makes Program Mercury possible at all?

2. When communicating with mission control, what does Glenn refer to his capsule as?

3. Sixteen days after Grissom's flight, the Russians launch another cosmonaut into space. How many times does the cosmonaut orbit the Earth before landing?

4. Why does the unmanned flight receive very little public attention?

5. As a result of his record-setting flight, where does Bob White show up?

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