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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 are the pilots known by at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base?
(a) Their nickname.
(b) Their call sign.
(c) Their given name.
(d) Their number.

2. What is Jim Lovell's nickname?
(a) Ace.
(b) Ears.
(c) Shaky.
(d) Scooby.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is in charge of testing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base?

2. Why do the volunteers report to Lovelace?

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

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

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

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