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

2. What does every fighter jock also think of himself as?
(a) An ace driver.
(b) A ladies' man.
(c) An indestructible force.
(d) A being just beneath God.

3. 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 test plane will crash into their house.
(d) That a figure is coming up the walk to tell her that her husband had been killed.

4. Why is Pete Conrad transferred to the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland?
(a) Because he is promoted to Lieutenant.
(b) Because he has to prepare for combat missions in Korea.
(c) Because he requested a post involving less danger.
(d) Because he is entering the Navy's test-pilot school.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the wives calling each other at the beginning of the story?

2. What is the most difficult routine in military flying?

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

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

5. Complete this flying theorem: "There are no accidents and no fatal flaws in the machines..."

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