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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. What is the Navy-calculated probability that a career Navy pilot will die in an aircraft accident?
(a) 56%
(b) 7%
(c) 38%
(d) 23%

2. What does Gus Grissom find to be the strangest experience for him in the beginning of the press conference?
(a) The photographers are so eager for pictures of the astronauts and they haven't even been introduced yet.
(b) The absolute silence of the conference room as the pilots walk through the curtain for the first time is the strangest thing.
(c) The flashing light bulbs from all of the cameras causes him to have a seizure.
(d) As soon as they appear, reporters start firing questions at them.

3. Who originally pilots the X-1 aircraft?
(a) Chuck Yeager.
(b) Jim Lovell.
(c) Pete Conrad.
(d) Slick Goodlin.

4. What is Gus Grissom awarded for his actions during combat in Korea?
(a) The Purple Heart.
(b) The Ace Award.
(c) The Distinguished Flying Cross.
(d) The Superior Aviator Award.

5. What problem does the Army have with Yeager piloting the X-1?
(a) They can't convince him the sound barrier is real.
(b) They can't stop him from drinking.
(c) They can't keep his wife away from the base.
(d) They can't hold him back.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the nickname given to Pete's flight test class?

2. What is the biggest challenge of landing on a carrier ship?

3. Who is known as the "king of the test fighter pilots"?

4. Muroc Army Air Base is renamed in 1948. What is its new name?

5. When Gus Grissom's wife gives birth to their first child, where is Gus?

(see the answer key)

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