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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Gumshoes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many solid-fuel rockets help boost the shuttle for a few minutes before they separate from the shuttle?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Six.

2. When Richard stood to accept his award from the American Association of Physics Teachers, he told the crowd that instead of talking about teaching he is going to talk about what?
(a) The existance of other galaxies.
(b) Why woman should rule the world.
(c) The structure of the proton.
(d) The meaning of life.

3. While on a tour inside the United Nations building in Geneva, Switzerland, Richard spotted a physicist friend of his from where?
(a) Sweden.
(b) Japan.
(c) The U.S.A.
(d) Russia.

4. Where did commission member Al Keel come from?
(a) The White House.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Thiokol.
(d) New York City.

5. When Richard and the other members of the investigation commission get to Florida they were originally going to go around Kennedy Space Center, but what happened first?
(a) They went to the hotel where everyone was staying.
(b) They had a news conference with reporters.
(c) They had a public meeting.
(d) They called the president of the United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the head of NASA who called Richard a few days after the accident?

2. What is the name of the shuttle that Richard discusses in Part 2 of the book?

3. When the taxi driver took Richard around an East Indian neighborhood, he pointed out two women he admired who gathered enough money to buy what?

4. In Part 1: Hotel City, Richard mentions going on a tour inside the United Nations building in Geneva, Switzerland. What kind of handles did the big auditorium doors have?

5. When Richard took a taxi to the East Indian neighborhood, the taxi driver pointed out a man sitting on the front steps of a concrete block house and stated that the man's son was studying medicine where?

(see the answer key)

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