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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before Richard was born, his father told his mother that "if it's a boy, he's going to be a" what?
(a) Astronaut.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Scientist.
(d) Thinker.

2. What did Richard say was the word that described the "printed pictures which had just come out in newspapers"?
(a) Letterographies.
(b) Printographs.
(c) Rotogravures.
(d) Pictorials.

3. How many solid-fuel rockets help boost the shuttle for a few minutes before they separate from the shuttle?
(a) Six.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

4. What did Richard say Arlene played beautifully?
(a) The violin.
(b) The cello.
(c) The harp.
(d) The piano.

5. What type of joints are made at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida?
(a) Factory joints.
(b) Energy joints.
(c) Field joints.
(d) Link joints.

Short Answer Questions

1. Richard talks about "contemporaries" of his that he hung out with. He mentions that Harold Gast and David Leff were what "types" of people?

2. Richard mentions that a friend of his mother was trying to make a living during the Depression by doing what?

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

4. In Part 1, Richard mentions kids playing in a field and one of them asking Richard to name a particular bird. What kind of bird did the child tell Richard the bird was?

5. On his way back from Brazil, where did Richard stop at?

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