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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are wives notified if their husband is injured or killed during a test flight?
(a) Another one of the wives goes to the house to break the news.
(b) The Navy sends an official letter to the wife.
(c) There is no official procedure for notifying the family of death.
(d) The Navy sends a man with official or moral authority to the house.

2. How many planes does a pilot have to shoot down in combat to be considered an "ace"?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 3.

3. What is the one sound that test pilots' wives are most afraid of?
(a) The door bell.
(b) The sound of a plane's engine.
(c) The church bells.
(d) The telephone.

4. What is the Navy-calculated probability that a career Navy pilot will die in an aircraft accident?
(a) 38%
(b) 56%
(c) 23%
(d) 7%

5. Muroc Army Air Base is renamed in 1948. What is its new name?
(a) Kennedy Army Air Base.
(b) George Air Force Base.
(c) Cape Canaveral.
(d) Edwards Air Force Base.

6. 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?
(a) Scott Carpenter.
(b) Gordon Cooper.
(c) Deke Slayton.
(d) John Glenn.

7. Which of the astronauts is actually an atheist (although he told the press that he had previously "attended" a Christian Science church with his wife)?
(a) Alan Shepard.
(b) Gus Grissom.
(c) Scott Carpenter.
(d) John Glenn.

8. Why do the astronauts spend so much time in the procedures trainer?
(a) They are required to stay in the trainer until they successfully complete all of the tasks.
(b) They are being photographed as part of the Life story.
(c) They are just passing time until they can be cleared for take off.
(d) They simulate various flight scenarios and what to do in the case of emergency.

9. What do the Project Mercury engineers think will be an easy task?
(a) Controlling the capsule while in space.
(b) Recovering the capsule after it splashed down.
(c) Launching the rockets.
(d) Training the astronauts.

10. Who originally pilots the X-1 aircraft?
(a) Chuck Yeager.
(b) Jim Lovell.
(c) Pete Conrad.
(d) Slick Goodlin.

11. In the eyes of the engineers, what are the astronauts?
(a) Essential to the success of the program.
(b) Partners in a great mission.
(c) National heroes.
(d) Test subjects in an experiment.

12. What state is Chuck Yeager from?
(a) West Virginia.
(b) Florida.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Minnesota.

13. Who is in charge of testing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base?
(a) The Secretary of the Navy.
(b) Psychiatrists.
(c) General Schwickenberg.
(d) NASA engineers.

14. Which of the astronauts commands the least star power?
(a) Scott Carpenter.
(b) Deke Slayton.
(c) John Glenn.
(d) Alan Shepard.

15. Which pilot waxes philosophical when asked at the press conference about family and religion (much to the surprise and astonishment of the other pilots)?
(a) Deke Slayton.
(b) Gus Grissom.
(c) John Glenn.
(d) Alan Shepard.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the end of the chapter, which one of the seven is beginning to assume the natural leadership role?

2. What are the pilots known by at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base?

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

4. Which pilot marches into General Schwichenberg's office, throws an enema bag on his desk, and refuses to give himself any more enemas?

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

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