View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jim Lovell's nickname?
(a) Scooby.
(b) Ace.
(c) Shaky.
(d) Ears.

2. 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 extraordinary combat accomplishments.
(b) Their superior adaptability.
(c) Their piloting skills.
(d) Their physical fitness.

3. How much time passes after the press conference before the astronauts are though of as national heroes?
(a) It happens overnight.
(b) It takes three days.
(c) They aren't considered of as national heroes until the first launch.
(d) It takes seven weeks.

4. In what year does the story begin?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1967.

5. How many kills does Yeager have by the end of World War II?
(a) 5 1/2.
(b) 21.
(c) 10.
(d) 13 1/2.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the one sound that test pilots' wives are most afraid of?

2. Who originally pilots the X-1 aircraft?

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

4. What does "pushing the outside of the envelope" refer to?

5. What is the nightmare that Jane Conrad has repeatedly?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 272 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample