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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15, The Two-Billion-Dollar Bomber.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Johnson's wife Althea die in 1970?
(a) An auto accident.
(b) Multiple Sclerosis.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Diabetes.

2. How long did it take to get the first photographs taken by a U-2?
(a) 5 days.
(b) 4 days.
(c) 2 days.
(d) 3 days.

3. When did a piece of one of the drones resurface?
(a) 8 years later.
(b) 9 years later.
(c) 17 years later.
(d) 15 years later.

4. For how many years did the Taiwanese squadron fly U-2s over Red China?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 14 years.
(c) 7 years.
(d) 10 years.

5. What bomber was the United States using to counter the Soviet heavy bombers?
(a) YB-60.
(b) XB-59.
(c) B-52.
(d) B-47.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the workers who applied for jobs with the Skunk Works flunked the drug testing?

2. Where was Johnson hurt in a nearly fatal car wreck in 1955?

3. How much money did the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency give Skunk Works to develop a stealth boat?

4. Where was a piece of a drone found years after the project had been canceled?

5. Where in Europe were the U-2s to fly from?

(see the answer key)

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