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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, "Yeager".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the top speed attained during the October 14th flight?
(a) Mach 1.10.
(b) Mach 0.96.
(c) Mach 0.80.
(d) Mach 1.05.

3. How many test pilots are in the original group in Jacksonville?
(a) 35.
(b) 8.
(c) 20.
(d) 12.

4. Why are the wives calling each other at the beginning of the story?
(a) They are angry over a new testing policy for the pilots.
(b) They are trying to figure out who's husband was killed.
(c) They are sharing news of a new baby.
(d) They are planning a surprise party for the pilots.

5. What state is Chuck Yeager from?
(a) Florida.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Minnesota.
(d) West Virginia.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does the story begin?

2. What does every fighter jock also think of himself as?

3. How does Ted Whelan die?

4. In every flight class, what ratio of new trainees do not earn their wings?

5. Muroc Army Air Base is renamed in 1948. What is its new name?

(see the answer key)

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