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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In every flight class, what ratio of new trainees do not earn their wings?
(a) 7 in 9.
(b) 3 in 5.
(c) 1 in 3.
(d) 2 in 4.

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

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

4. Muroc Army Air Base is renamed in 1948. What is its new name?
(a) Edwards Air Force Base.
(b) George Air Force Base.
(c) Kennedy Army Air Base.
(d) Cape Canaveral.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why do fighter pilots have an intense dislike for flight surgeons?

4. How are wives notified if their husband is injured or killed during a test flight?

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

(see the answer key)

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