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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As a result of these problems, what does Cooper have to do?
(a) Manually line up the capsule for re-entry.
(b) Remap the splash zone.
(c) Fly on battery power.
(d) Deploy the parachute.

2. How many orbits does Cooper complete?
(a) 22.
(b) 34.
(c) 12.
(d) 7.

3. Shepard is strapped so tightly into the capsule that he can't feel the weightlessness he knows he is experiencing. What item floats in front of him in the capsule?
(a) A washer.
(b) An oxygen hose.
(c) A rivet.
(d) A replacement battery.

4. What is given to Shepard by President Kennedy?
(a) The Medal of Honor.
(b) The Distinguished Service Medal.
(c) The Ace Award.
(d) The Purple Heart.

5. What happens when the second Mercury flight splashes down?
(a) The helicopter cannot hook on to the capsule.
(b) The capsule begins to sink.
(c) The capsule lands upside down.
(d) The spotters cannot find the capsule.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the astronauts move to Houston?

2. Who does Annie Glenn refuse to let into her house because the press storm around the launch is so excruciating to her?

3. Which astronaut is named to fly in the second Mercury capsule?

4. What is significant about Cooper's flight?

5. Why is Deke Slayton grounded?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do neither John Glenn nor his wife, Annie, foresee the excitement that John's flight will cause?

2. The Air Force has grand plans of their own for a space program. What do their plans include?

3. What worries the astronauts the most about Project Mercury potentially losing funding?

4. When NASA grounds Deke Slayton, the press refers to him as being "keenly disappointed." How is Slayton actually feeling?

5. What does Grissom say to the second group of astronauts to keep them in their place?

6. During an international space conference attended by the Russians to publicize their successes in space, what reassuring fact does the United States learn?

7. Why does the next group of astronauts selected contain fourteen trainees instead of the intended eleven trainees?

8. What irks the Original Seven wives about the Next Nine wives?

9. Why does Grissom's suit not keep him buoyant when he is awaiting rescue in the ocean?

10. What reaction does the American public have to the chimpanzee's flight?

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