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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who is the biggest practical joker among the volunteers?
(a) Gus Grissom.
(b) Pete Conrad.
(c) Wally Schirra.
(d) Alan Shepard.
2. How many fighter jocks volunteer for the top-secret civilian program?
(a) 29.
(b) 56.
(c) 12.
(d) 37.
3. Who is Bob White?
(a) The reporter writing the Life stories.
(b) The lead engineer on Project Mercury.
(c) The head of mission control.
(d) The Air Force's prime pilot for the X-15 project at Edwards.
4. Why are the wives calling each other at the beginning of the story?
(a) They are trying to figure out who's husband was killed.
(b) They are angry over a new testing policy for the pilots.
(c) They are sharing news of a new baby.
(d) They are planning a surprise party for the pilots.
5. In what year does the story begin?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1960.
Short Answer Questions
1. Complete this flying theorem: "There are no accidents and no fatal flaws in the machines..."
2. What does every fighter jock also think of himself as?
3. Who is known as the "king of the test fighter pilots"?
4. When Pete receives his top-secret orders, what is the project he is being asked to volunteer for?
5. Which pilot marches into General Schwichenberg's office, throws an enema bag on his desk, and refuses to give himself any more enemas?
Short Essay Questions
1. The training program for the chimpanzees is based on operant conditioning. Describe what that means for the chimpanzees.
2. Why does Gus Grissom find the selection of Scott Carpenter as an astronaut odd?
3. Describe Jane Conrad's nightmares and hallucinations?
4. Name two reasons that fighter pilots hate to declare an emergency.
5. Name three tests conducted at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on the pilots.
6. Why do many pilots choose to try to pilot a wounded aircraft to the ground rather than eject?
7. What does Chuck Yeager become convinced of as he pilots the X-1 at near-Mach I speeds?
8. What is the goal of the pilots in Project Mercury, which is the same goal in every new and important flight project?
9. Why do the pilots come to hate Lovelace?
10. In detailing the experiences of the astronauts, the author states that "everywhere they went in their travels people stopped what they were doing and gave them a certain look of awe and sympathy." Awe is easily understood. Why do they look at them with sympathy?
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