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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 are the pilots known by at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base?
(a) Their call sign.
(b) Their nickname.
(c) Their given name.
(d) Their number.

2. What is Chuck Yeager's signature flying move?
(a) He has no signature move.
(b) A slow roll, sixty feet off the deck.
(c) Pulling out of a steep dive just before crashing.
(d) Shooting straight up before leveling off.

3. What is the name Yeager gives to his plane?
(a) Guns of Death.
(b) Rocketing Rickshaw.
(c) Soaring Eagle.
(d) Glamorous Glynnis.

4. What is the nightmare that Jane Conrad has repeatedly?
(a) That a figure is coming up the walk to tell her that her husband had been killed.
(b) That a test plane will crash into their house.
(c) That Jane is in the pilot's seat of a doomed plane.
(d) That her husband leaves her.

5. What does "pushing the outside of the envelope" refer to?
(a) The limits of a particular aircraft's performance.
(b) The new US Postal Service's mailing requirements.
(c) The least amount of sleep a test pilot needs before being considered safe to fly.
(d) The farthest distance from the base a plane can fly without refueling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Navy-calculated probability that a career Navy pilot will die in an aircraft accident?

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

3. Why does Janet Conrad support her husband's decision to join the astronaut program?

4. How many kills does Yeager have by the end of World War II?

5. When Jane Conrad realizes the cavalier manner in which the pilots discuss their killed comrades, what does she liken their discussion to?

(see the answer key)

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