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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, "The Cape".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Chuck Yeager is interviewed by reporters in Phoenix, what do the reporters want to know about?
(a) The next plane Yeager will be testing.
(b) How Yeager's family is.
(c) The sound barrier.
(d) The astronauts.

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

4. Who is in charge of testing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base?
(a) Psychiatrists.
(b) NASA engineers.
(c) The Secretary of the Navy.
(d) General Schwickenberg.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the top speed attained during the October 14th flight?

2. What is the subject of the first press conference question?

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

4. What is focused on as being the pilots' best qualification for their selection to the Project Mercury astronaut program at the press conference?

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

(see the answer key)

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