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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, "In Single Combat".
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Why are the wives calling each other at the beginning of the story?
(a) They are angry over a new testing policy for the pilots.
(b) They are planning a surprise party for the pilots.
(c) They are sharing news of a new baby.
(d) They are trying to figure out who's husband was killed.
2. How are wives notified if their husband is injured or killed during a test flight?
(a) The Navy sends a man with official or moral authority to the house.
(b) The Navy sends an official letter to the wife.
(c) Another one of the wives goes to the house to break the news.
(d) There is no official procedure for notifying the family of death.
3. How many kills does Yeager have by the end of World War II?
(a) 5 1/2.
(b) 10.
(c) 21.
(d) 13 1/2.
4. When the book begins, where is the Naval Air Station that Pete Conrad is stationed at?
(a) Texas.
(b) Nevada.
(c) Florida.
(d) California.
5. What is the nickname given to Project Mercury by the top pilots at the base?
(a) Spam in a Can.
(b) Monkeys in Space.
(c) The Flying Chimpanzees.
(d) Corpses in a Capsule.
Short Answer Questions
1. Muroc Army Air Base is renamed in 1948. What is its new name?
2. Complete this flying theorem: "There are no accidents and no fatal flaws in the machines..."
3. Why is Pete Conrad transferred to the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland?
4. Who is the only Marine in the group of seven astronauts?
5. What is the Navy-calculated probability that a career Navy pilot will die in an aircraft accident?
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