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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, "Yeager".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year does the story begin?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1948.

2. How many kills does Yeager have by the end of World War II?
(a) 10.
(b) 13 1/2.
(c) 21.
(d) 5 1/2.

3. What is the one sound that test pilots' wives are most afraid of?
(a) The door bell.
(b) The telephone.
(c) The sound of a plane's engine.
(d) The church bells.

4. Who is known as the "king of the test fighter pilots"?
(a) Chuck Yeager.
(b) Pete Conrad.
(c) Gus Grissom.
(d) Jim Lovell.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a pilot is in the air and looking down at the ground, what does he most often feel?

2. Why should Yeager be grounded and not allowed to fly the test flight to break the sound barrier on October 14th?

3. What is the nightmare that Jane Conrad has repeatedly?

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

5. Who originally pilots the X-1 aircraft?

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