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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Swatting at Mosquitoes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Skunk Works headquarters built?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1937.

2. What was the temperature at 8 a.m. on an August day in 1979?
(a) 87.
(b) 95.
(c) 90s.
(d) 100s.

3. How many of the workers who applied for jobs with the Skunk Works flunked the drug testing?
(a) 12 percent.
(b) 44 percent.
(c) 58 percent.
(d) 23 percent.

4. In Chapter 2, what type of a work week did the senior aerodynamicists, thermodynamicists, propulsion specialists, stress and structures, and weight engineers work to meet a deadline?
(a) 14-hour days, 7 days a week.
(b) 10-hour days, 6 days a week.
(c) 12-hour days, 5 days a week.
(d) 11-hour days, 7 days a week.

5. What would be the equivalent radar signature of the Hopeless Diamond?
(a) An eagle's eyeball.
(b) D-21 drone.
(c) T-38 trainer.
(d) Piper Cub.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Johnson start the Skunk Works?

2. How many F-117As were hit when they flew over Iraq?

3. How long did it take Skunk Works to build their stealth fighters?

4. What type of a deadline was Skunk Works given to test-fly the first stealth fighter?

5. What was the F-117A nicknamed?

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