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

2. Who runs the Fly Inn near Muroc Field?
(a) John Louis.
(b) Amelia Earhart.
(c) Pancho Barnes.
(d) Marcus Graves.

3. While NASA is introducing and promoting Project Mercury, what is the Air Force trying to promote?
(a) Their new recruiting practices.
(b) The high number of kills in the Korean conflict.
(c) Chuck Yeager's breaking of the sound barrier.
(d) The superior hand-to-hand fighting skills of the pilots.

4. Why do the volunteers report to Lovelace?
(a) For psychological testing.
(b) To observe rocket testing.
(c) For medical testing.
(d) For flight training.

5. Who is known as the "king of the test fighter pilots"?
(a) Chuck Yeager.
(b) Gus Grissom.
(c) Pete Conrad.
(d) Jim Lovell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the pilots report to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base?

2. From the original volunteers for the program, how many are finally accepted as astronauts?

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

4. What feature makes Pete Conrad different from a lot of other pilots?

5. The pilots hold Konakai seances. What is Konakai?

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