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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Gumshoes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the taxi driver took Richard around an East Indian neighborhood, he pointed out two women he admired who gathered enough money to buy what?
(a) A television.
(b) A car.
(c) A sewing machine.
(d) A bigger house.

2. What was Richard's immediate reaction when he found out where the investigation of the shuttle accident was going to be?
(a) Not to do it.
(b) To ask his wife to come along with him.
(c) To become involved as much as possible.
(d) To see who else he knew on the committee.

3. What is the name of the shuttle that Richard discusses in Part 2 of the book?
(a) Challenger.
(b) Columbia,
(c) Endeavour.
(d) Atlantis.

4. Richard told the women who were protesting that they should be concerned about the cop in his story. Why?
(a) Because he was harrassing a woman.
(b) Because it is not known whether the cop was a man or a woman.
(c) Because she was a woman.
(d) Because cops are corrupt.

5. There are joints that hold sections of the shuttle together. How many different types of joints are there?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

1. The instruction manual to the device the ice crew used for measuring the temperatures said that the instrument must be out in the environment for at least how many minutes before using?

2. Where is the Morton Thiokol factory located?

3. When Charlie Stevenson was explaining the temperatures before the launch, how low of a temperature did his crew get a reading of?

4. Richard stated that when he was a kid growing up in Far Rockaway, he and his friend, Bernie, both had what in their homes?

5. The head of NASA had worked at the Hughes Aircraft Company where Richard had given lectures on which day of the week?

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