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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, "On the Balcony".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the astronauts rises early each morning to do his roadwork where everyone can see him?
(a) John Glenn.
(b) Deke Slayton.
(c) Wally Schirra.
(d) Gus Grissom.

3. Which of the astronauts commands the most star power?
(a) Alan Shepard.
(b) John Glenn.
(c) Scott Carpenter.
(d) Deke Slayton.

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

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. When the book begins, where is the Naval Air Station that Pete Conrad is stationed at?

2. How many planes does a pilot have to shoot down in combat to be considered an "ace"?

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

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

5. Which pilot marches into General Schwichenberg's office, throws an enema bag on his desk, and refuses to give himself any more enemas?

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