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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. How much fuel did the Blackbird carry?
(a) About 10,000 gallons.
(b) More than 20,000 gallons.
(c) About 5,000 gallons.
(d) More than 13,000 gallons.

2. What was the farthest distance that Johnson would put an engineer from the assembly line?
(a) 15 ft.
(b) 25 ft.
(c) 50 ft.
(d) 100 ft.

3. Which of Johnson's operational rules at Skunk Works said it was better to starve than to do business with the Navy?
(a) Number 6.
(b) Number 15.
(c) Number 9.
(d) Number 7.

4. How much would Northrop Aircraft Company have increased Rich's salary if he went to work for them?
(a) $15,000 a year.
(b) $12,000 a year.
(c) $5,000 a year.
(d) $10,000 a year.

5. How much money did the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency give Skunk Works to develop a stealth boat?
(a) $175,000.
(b) $150,000.
(c) $50,000.
(d) $100,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many SWATH boats did Rich project would be needed to protect the entire U.S. Navy carrier fleet?

2. What was the code name of the most sensitive project during Rich's years at Skunk Works?

3. What vehicle passed too closely to a truck carrying the Blackbird?

4. What did it cost Northrop to build the B-2?

5. What did the CIA nickname the Blackbird project?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the U.S. want to gain information about Lop Nor?

2. How did Rich believe large, expensive airplanes would be built in the future?

3. Why did Johnson believe the drones failed over China?

4. Why did Johnson call the F-111 a national scandal?

5. Where was a model of the stealth ship tested?

6. Why did Rich hesitate to tell Johnson he had been offered a job at Northrop?

7. What was the most sensitive project Rich worked on at Skunk Works? The most sensitive project Rich ever worked on began in 1962 and had the code name Tagboard. The operation was to design spy drones to fly over Communist China's most remote and secret nuclear test facilities.

8. Why was the stealth project photographer getting fuzzy pictures of the stealth airplane model?

9. What was done to win over the community of Susanville when they continually experienced the affects of sonic booms?

10. What was done to prepare the route for the truck that would carry the Blackbird to the test site?

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