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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Preliminaries; Committing Suicide.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is located at the back end of the space shuttle orbiter?
(a) The fuel tanks.
(b) The engines.
(c) The space for the crew.
(d) The cargo bay.

2. When Richard was attending graduate school, a guy walked in on him holding a pot in one hand and stirring with the other. What was in the pot that Richard was stirring?
(a) Pudding.
(b) Water.
(c) Ice cubes.
(d) Jell-O.

3. Where is the Morton Thiokol factory located?
(a) Utah.
(b) Florida.
(c) Texas.
(d) California.

4. When the solid-fuel rockets separate from the shuttle, where do they fall?
(a) Into the atmosphere and then they disintegrate.
(b) On barren land.
(c) They float into space.
(d) Into the sea.

5. While Richard and his father were examining the leaf that was picked off a tree he stated that the line is the beginning of a fly with what color eyes?
(a) Red.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

Short Answer Questions

1. Richard talks about "contemporaries" of his that he hung out with. He mentions that Robert Stapler was what type of person?

2. What was the name of Richard's sister?

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

4. In Part 1, Richard mentions an artist friend who stated that scientists take beautiful flowers apart and then the flowers become what?

5. When Richard goes to the palace to meet the king and queen in "Part 1: Letters, Photos, and Drawings," what color of coats were the waiters wearing?

(see the answer key)

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