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

3. What is Jim Lovell's nickname?
(a) Ace.
(b) Scooby.
(c) Ears.
(d) Shaky.

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 the biggest practical joker among the volunteers?
(a) Gus Grissom.
(b) Wally Schirra.
(c) Alan Shepard.
(d) Pete Conrad.

6. While not logging any flying time comes to bother all seven of the astronauts, which is the astronaut who finally voices their complaint?
(a) John Glenn.
(b) Wally Schirra.
(c) Gus Grissom.
(d) Gordon Cooper.

7. What political event leads to Project Mercury being thought of, for the first time, as potentially expendable?
(a) The establishment of political special interest groups.
(b) The launch of another Sputnik satellite.
(c) The election of John F. Kennedy as the country's new President.
(d) The public relations nightmare created by the Edwards' pilots.

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

9. By the end of the chapter, which one of the seven is beginning to assume the natural leadership role?
(a) Gordon Cooper.
(b) John Glenn.
(c) Alan Shepard.
(d) Jim Lovell.

10. What is the name Yeager gives to his plane?
(a) Soaring Eagle.
(b) Rocketing Rickshaw.
(c) Guns of Death.
(d) Glamorous Glynnis.

11. 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?
(a) Deke Slayton.
(b) Scott Carpenter.
(c) John Glenn.
(d) Gus Grissom.

12. While most fighter pilots revel in driving fast sports cars, John Glenn does not. What car does he drive?
(a) A Buick.
(b) A Civic.
(c) A Corvette.
(d) A Peugeot.

13. 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) Scott Carpenter.
(b) Alan Shepard.
(c) John Glenn.
(d) Gus Grissom.

14. What is the nightmare that Jane Conrad has repeatedly?
(a) That her husband leaves her.
(b) That Jane is in the pilot's seat of a doomed plane.
(c) That a figure is coming up the walk to tell her that her husband had been killed.
(d) That a test plane will crash into their house.

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