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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 is the nickname given to Pete's flight test class?
(a) Class A.
(b) Group 20.
(c) Top Guns.
(d) The Soaring Eagles.

2. The pilots hold Konakai seances. What is Konakai?
(a) The bar the pilots gathered at after work.
(b) A hotel near Cape Canaveral.
(c) A Japanese warrior tradition.
(d) The title of one of Glenn's philosophical books.

3. Who is the only Marine in the group of seven astronauts?
(a) Gus Grissom.
(b) Alan Shepard.
(c) John Glenn.
(d) Pete Conrad.

4. How many fighter jocks volunteer for the top-secret civilian program?
(a) 29.
(b) 12.
(c) 37.
(d) 56.

5. From the original volunteers for the program, how many are finally accepted as astronauts?
(a) 12.
(b) 7.
(c) 10.
(d) 20.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do the pilots wear their bridge coats?

2. In every flight class, what ratio of new trainees do not earn their wings?

3. Scott Carpenter is the only astronaut who has a touch of what in him?

4. When a pilot is in the air and looking down at the ground, what does he most often feel?

5. Why does Janet Conrad support her husband's decision to join the astronaut program?

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