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

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

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

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

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 is the most difficult routine in military flying?

2. In what year does the story begin?

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

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

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

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