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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, "In Single Combat".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the nickname given to Pete's flight test class?
(a) The Soaring Eagles.
(b) Group 20.
(c) Top Guns.
(d) Class A.

2. When Pete receives his top-secret orders, what is the project he is being asked to volunteer for?
(a) The Saturn Project.
(b) The Mercury Project.
(c) The X-1 Project.
(d) The Moon Project.

3. What is the Navy-calculated probability that a career Navy pilot will die in an aircraft accident?
(a) 56%
(b) 7%
(c) 38%
(d) 23%

4. What is focused on as being the pilots' best qualification for their selection to the Project Mercury astronaut program at the press conference?
(a) Their superior adaptability.
(b) Their extraordinary combat accomplishments.
(c) Their physical fitness.
(d) Their piloting skills.

5. Why do the volunteers report to Lovelace?
(a) To observe rocket testing.
(b) For flight training.
(c) For medical testing.
(d) For psychological testing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gus Grissom find to be the strangest experience for him in the beginning of the press conference?

2. From the original volunteers for the program, how many are finally accepted as astronauts?

3. When the book begins, where is the Naval Air Station that Pete Conrad is stationed at?

4. What is the biggest challenge of landing on a carrier ship?

5. What problem does the Army have with Yeager piloting the X-1?

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