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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Page 280.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does this race allow them to feel?
(a) Anxious about their abilities.
(b) Conservative and restrained.
(c) Nervous, yet excited.
(d) As if they can take certain kinds of risks they would never take in the other races.

2. As what does Mark continue working?
(a) An electrical engineer.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A musician.
(d) A mechanical engineer.

3. Mark Donohue begins this chapter informing readers that the team is taking their race car to Indianapolis in order to do what?
(a) Run tests on the wheels they are seriously considering using during the upcoming race season.
(b) To win large amounts of prize money.
(c) To see how much the team has improved.
(d) Race against the best teams.

4. Mark explains that when they build for long-distance races their primary concern is what?
(a) To build cars that can go the fastest.
(b) To build cars with a lot of horsepower.
(c) To build light weight cars.
(d) To build cars that can last the race.

5. Does Mark ever feel like quitting?
(a) Yes, often.
(b) No, never.
(c) Yes, always.
(d) Yes, sometimes.

Short Answer Questions

1. While the engineers are repairing a car, what happens in the garage?

2. Mark requests a car to be built a certain way. Then he road tests it at the track for how many days?

3. There is an important meeting that provides for another team of drivers to take over so that Javelins will still run for __________________ even though Roger Penske will not do it.

4. What is someone able to offer Mark Donohue for racing on a team?

5. The team makes progress by doing well in Formula ____.

(see the answer key)

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