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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 does NASA hire to be the astronauts' press representative?
(a) Leo DeOrsey.
(b) John Mortey.
(c) Alfred Godfrey.
(d) Betty Grissom.

2. The pilots hold Konakai seances. What is Konakai?
(a) The bar the pilots gathered at after work.
(b) A hotel near Cape Canaveral.
(c) The title of one of Glenn's philosophical books.
(d) A Japanese warrior tradition.

3. What problem does the Army have with Yeager piloting the X-1?
(a) They can't convince him the sound barrier is real.
(b) They can't hold him back.
(c) They can't stop him from drinking.
(d) They can't keep his wife away from the base.

4. In what year does the story begin?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1960.

5. Scott Carpenter is the only astronaut who has a touch of what in him?
(a) An activist.
(b) A ladies' man.
(c) A rebel.
(d) A poet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the astronauts spend so much time in the procedures trainer?

2. Who is in charge of testing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base?

3. Who runs the Fly Inn near Muroc Field?

4. What does Gus Grissom find to be the strangest experience for him in the beginning of the press conference?

5. Who is John Glenn's greatest ally in the debate over how the astronauts should conduct themselves?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Gus Grissom find the selection of Scott Carpenter as an astronaut odd?

2. What is the procedures trainer?

3. Why do the pilots come to hate Lovelace?

4. According to the author, why does every pilot sound the same and talk with a lilting, vaguely Southern-sounding drawl?

5. Name two reasons that fighter pilots hate to declare an emergency.

6. Name three tests conducted at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on the pilots.

7. Describe what the chapter's title of "On the Balcony" refers to.

8. Why do the astronauts not refer to themselves or the other astronauts as "astronauts"?

9. Why does Gus Grissom feel that the reporter's question regarding whether or not the pilots feel they would come back from space is a stupid question?

10. Why is the book titled "The Right Stuff"?

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