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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, "The Unscrewable Pooch".
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Kennedy insist on as NASA's next focus?
(a) To build a space station.
(b) To build the space shuttle.
(c) To land a man on the moon.
(d) To successfully repeat the Mercury flight.
2. What political event leads to Project Mercury being thought of, for the first time, as potentially expendable?
(a) The public relations nightmare created by the Edwards' pilots.
(b) The establishment of political special interest groups.
(c) The launch of another Sputnik satellite.
(d) The election of John F. Kennedy as the country's new President.
3. What do Cape Canaveral and its surroundings remind the pilots of?
(a) Muroc Army Air Base.
(b) Patrick Air Force Base.
(c) Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
(d) Langley Air Force Base.
4. What are the pilots known by at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base?
(a) Their number.
(b) Their given name.
(c) Their nickname.
(d) Their call sign.
5. What is Chuck Yeager's signature flying move?
(a) A slow roll, sixty feet off the deck.
(b) Shooting straight up before leveling off.
(c) He has no signature move.
(d) Pulling out of a steep dive just before crashing.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Gus want Betty to remember when she flies down to the Cape?
2. In the wake of the successful Mercury flight, even Shorty Powers becomes famous. Who is Shorty Powers?
3. Shepard is strapped so tightly into the capsule that he can't feel the weightlessness he knows he is experiencing. What item floats in front of him in the capsule?
4. Which of the astronauts does not live with his family on or near the base, but houses his family 120 miles away from the base and lives in the base's Bachelor Quarters?
5. Which pilot waxes philosophical when asked at the press conference about family and religion (much to the surprise and astonishment of the other pilots)?
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