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

2. When do the pilots wear their bridge coats?
(a) When it is raining.
(b) When they are on patrol.
(c) When superior officers visit the base.
(d) When they attend another pilot's funeral.

3. When the book begins, where is the Naval Air Station that Pete Conrad is stationed at?
(a) Texas.
(b) Florida.
(c) California.
(d) Nevada.

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

5. When a pilot is in the air and looking down at the ground, what does he most often feel?
(a) Airsick.
(b) Like it's time to get back to base.
(c) Grateful he has the opportunity to fly.
(d) Superior to the people below.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How many test pilots are in the original group in Jacksonville?

4. Who is known as the "king of the test fighter pilots"?

5. What is the nickname given to Pete's flight test class?

(see the answer key)

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