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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Slayton refer to NASA's decision in statements to the press?
(a) As an operational decision.
(b) As an understandable decision.
(c) As a huge mistake.
(d) As the right thing to do.

2. What is given to Shepard by President Kennedy?
(a) The Medal of Honor.
(b) The Distinguished Service Medal.
(c) The Ace Award.
(d) The Purple Heart.

3. How does the author both begin and end the Epilogue?
(a) To dream at all is to dream big.
(b) To everything there is a season.
(c) The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away.
(d) Every race has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

4. When a pilot is in the air and looking down at the ground, what does he most often feel?
(a) Superior to the people below.
(b) Grateful he has the opportunity to fly.
(c) Like it's time to get back to base.
(d) Airsick.

5. Who is Bob White?
(a) The head of mission control.
(b) The Air Force's prime pilot for the X-15 project at Edwards.
(c) The lead engineer on Project Mercury.
(d) The reporter writing the Life stories.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which astronaut takes Slayton's place for the next flight?

2. From the pilots' point of view, what is the only thing lacking during their astronaut training?

3. Who is Bob Gilruth?

4. When the book begins, where is the Naval Air Station that Pete Conrad is stationed at?

5. What happens when the second Mercury flight splashes down?

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