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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is located at the front of the space shuttle orbiter?
(a) The engines.
(b) The cargo bay.
(c) The place where the crew sits.
(d) The fuel rockets.

2. What was the name of Richard's sister?
(a) Joan.
(b) Jane.
(c) Jillian.
(d) Julie.

3. When Richard and the other members of the investigation commission get to Florida they were originally going to go around Kennedy Space Center, but what happened first?
(a) They had a public meeting.
(b) They went to the hotel where everyone was staying.
(c) They called the president of the United States.
(d) They had a news conference with reporters.

4. In what color did Richard see the letter X in his mind?
(a) Midnight black.
(b) Dark brown.
(c) Burning orange.
(d) Emerald green.

5. What was the name of the man who took the temperature readings the morning of the launch?
(a) Richard Rogers.
(b) William Burns.
(c) Charlie Stevenson.
(d) B.K. Davis.

Short Answer Questions

1. The taxi driver mentioned in Part 1: Getting Ahead said he wanted to build for the future by betting on horses. What did the taxi driver say he would buy if he won money on the horses?

2. How many people lost their lives on the space shuttle?

3. How many solid-fuel rockets help boost the shuttle for a few minutes before they separate from the shuttle?

4. While on a tour inside the United Nations building in Geneva, Switzerland, Richard spotted a physicist friend of his from where?

5. Richard found out that the funeral for his unknown "friend" was going to be on what day?

(see the answer key)

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