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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, "The Operational Stuff".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the inscription found on the blackboard in the Astronaut Office?
(a) Live free or die trying.
(b) The turtle always beats the hare.
(c) What goes around comes around.
(d) The sports car is a symptom of male menopause.

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

3. What is the biggest challenge of landing on a carrier ship?
(a) Because the ship is pitching and rolling in the sea.
(b) Because carrier ship landings are never discussed before attempting.
(c) Because the grey of the ship makes it hard to spot in the ocean.
(d) Because the plane has to lose altitude so quickly.

4. Which two astronauts are selected to be the backup astronauts?
(a) John Glenn and Gus Grissom.
(b) Alan Shepard and John Glenn.
(c) Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom.
(d) Wally Schirra and John Glenn.

5. When the chimpanzee's rocket is launched, the rocket climbs at a slight higher angle that it is supposed to climb. What is the result?
(a) The capsule splashes down 132 miles away from the intended splash area.
(b) The higher angles causes such an increase in g forces that the chimpanzee does not survive.
(c) The capsule experiences more friction than expected and burns up on re-entry.
(d) The rocket self-corrects and re-establishes the proper climbing angle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Pete Conrad transferred to the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland?

2. Which of the astronauts had separated from his wife, but reconciles with her after the psychological interviews at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base because he thinks it will improve his chances for astronaut selection?

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

4. What does Kennedy insist on as NASA's next focus?

5. Where are the new astronauts stationed?

(see the answer key)

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