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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mark comes out of retirement to drive in a race. What happens?
(a) He wins the race.
(b) He is disqualified from the race.
(c) He is killed in a car crash during a practice for the race.
(d) He decides to continue his professional racing career.

2. There is something about one of the cars the Penske team is running at Indianapolis that is particularly ______________ for Mark Donohue.
(a) Easy.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Difficult.
(d) Fun.

3. It is normal for race cars to require what?
(a) Several drivers.
(b) Several organizers.
(c) Further development.
(d) Very few new parts.

4. Mark writes that after ____________ years of losing, they have learned a great deal and Mark hopes to return as a team manager in a way that can make them win.
(a) One.
(b) Many.
(c) A couple.
(d) A dozen.

5. A lot of race cars do not run on what fuel?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Gasoline.
(c) Methanol.
(d) Diesel.

6. Who wins the last race in which Donohue ever drives?
(a) Mario Andretti.
(b) Dale Earnhardt.
(c) Tom Petty.
(d) Mark Donohue.

7. The driver will normally have changes made to the race car. Why?
(a) So the parts are made by those companies that sponsor the car.
(b) So that he can drive it best.
(c) So the organizer is happy.
(d) So that the car is at its best.

8. Sunoco is interested in Formula A racing, partly because of what reason?
(a) The cars are very good.
(b) The drivers are very experienced.
(c) The prize for the winner is large.
(d) The cars that run it actually do rely on gasoline.

9. The McLaren is still only able to reach a maximum speed of ____________, whereas the Eagle cars are blowing them away, at 7mph faster.
(a) 158mph.
(b) 185mph.
(c) 167mph.
(d) 175mph.

10. Is success as a driver extremely important to Mark?
(a) Sometimes.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Rarely.

11. Mark knows he wants to leave racing before what?
(a) He turns into a loser instead of continuing to be a winner.
(b) He is too old to race.
(c) The fans do not like him.
(d) He is burned out from racing.

12. Mark Donohue disappoints everyone because he drives a car for the first time and what happens?
(a) He decides to quit racing.
(b) He returns back to the U.S.
(c) He wrecks it.
(d) He comes in slower and is unhappy with the whole vehicle.

13. This chapter is dated ________________.
(a) 1972 and 1973.
(b) 1971 and 1972.
(c) 1973 and 1974.
(d) 1970 and 1971.

14. In _________ at Indianapolis, Mark Donohue is fed up with these problems, even though during much of his career this is just the sort of thing he has enjoyed doing.
(a) 1979.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1975.

15. What is a second possible reason for why the drivers respond the way they do in number 139?
(a) Because of the difficulties in the construction of race cars.
(b) Because of how ignorant they are.
(c) Because of how much the trouble in question depends on what Mark is like.
(d) Because of the contracts they have signed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mark manages to place at the finish in some cases, by doing what?

2. Does Mark feel that any of the fans have even the vaguest idea of what it is he is actually doing?

3. Any changes in a car include what?

4. There is a man named ________ who has an important role in introducing Mark Donohue to how they go about doing things in Europe.

5. How is Mark Donohue lucky in this situation?

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