2. As she waits for her husband to be launched into space, what is Louise Shepard doing?
(a) Watching television like everyone else.
(b) Giving an interview to the reporters from Life magazine.
(c) Being a proper hostess for the people gathered in her house to watch the launch.
(d) Hiding in her back bedroom in tears.

3. Which chimpanzee is chosen to go into space?
(a) Number 61.
(b) Number 7.
(c) Number 1.
(d) Number 42.

4. What is the AWC?
(a) All Weather Club.
(b) Astronaut Waiting Club.
(c) Amazing Women Club.
(d) Astronaut Wives Club.

5. What are Gordon Cooper's and Deke Slayton's roles during the launch?
(a) They are the capsule communicators.
(b) They are NASA's press representatives.
(c) They are the look-outs for trouble on the launch pad.
(d) They are the technical trouble-shooters.

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

7. On what day does Shepard's Mercury capsule launch?
(a) May 25.
(b) May 10.
(c) May 5.
(d) May 12.

8. What is the concern that controllers have when preparing to bring Glenn back in through the atmosphere?
(a) That the heat shields are loose.
(b) That the blood pressure monitor is malfunctioning.
(c) That the capsule will overshoot the planned splash zone.
(d) That the parachute will not deploy.

9. Why does Shepard see the Earth through the periscope in black and white?
(a) The window had a built-in screen.
(b) He forgets to remove the gray filter before the launch.
(c) It's hard to detect color over vast distances.
(d) There is no color in space.

10. Based on the magazine article that is run on Glenn, Grissom, and Shepard, what do these three become known as?
(a) The Golden Boys.
(b) The Lucky Ones.
(c) The Chosen.
(d) The First Three.

11. What kind of rocket launches the first Mercury capsule?
(a) X-21 rocket.
(b) Redstone rocket.
(c) Atlas rocket.
(d) Canaveral rocket.

12. Which astronaut takes Slayton's place for the next flight?
(a) Alan Shepard.
(b) Gordon Cooper.
(c) Scott Carpenter.
(d) Wally Schirra.

13. How long is the launch delayed?
(a) Seventeen hours.
(b) Four hours.
(c) Twenty minutes.
(d) Forty minutes.

14. How long is the second Russian cosmonaut in space for?
(a) 3 days.
(b) 4 hours .
(c) 10 hours.
(d) 1 day.

15. After countless delays and several launch attempts, on what day is the manned flight finally launched?
(a) January 23, 1062.
(b) January 1, 1963.
(c) February 20, 1962.
(d) April 1, 1962.