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CAP cadet leadership, drill, the Cadet Oath and Core Values: help for achievement tests and milestone exams.
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About the real test: Civil Air Patrol cadet achievement tests
- Leadership tests are taken online, open-book, at a time and place the cadet chooses. (CAP: Cadet Tests and Exams)
- Each test is multiple choice with a 30 minute limit. You need 80 percent to pass. (CAP: Cadet Tests and Exams)
- If you fail, you wait 7 days before you retest. (CAP: Cadet Tests and Exams)
- Achievements 1 to 8 also include a drill and ceremonies performance test. (CAP: Cadet Tests and Exams)
- For the first promotion you must say the Cadet Oath from memory. (CAP: Achievement 1, Curry)
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- How many questions are on a regular cadet achievement test?
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25. Each leadership or aerospace achievement test has 25 multiple-choice questions. Milestone and Spaatz exams follow different rules.
- Can a cadet look in the textbook while taking a regular achievement test?
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Yes, achievement tests are open-book. Regular achievement tests are open-book, so cadets may look things up. That is why cadets are allowed to take them online at home.
- What is the time limit on a regular cadet achievement test?
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30 minutes. Each achievement test has a 30-minute time limit. Online, the software keeps the time, scores the test and records the result.
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- How many questions are on a regular cadet achievement test?
- Can a cadet look in the textbook while taking a regular achievement test?
- What is the time limit on a regular cadet achievement test?
- What score does a cadet need to pass an achievement test?
- If a cadet fails an achievement test, how long must they wait to try again?
- How does a cadet earn credit for a Cadet Interactive module?
- Which study material is tested only by a written test, not Cadet Interactive?
- How are milestone award exams, like the Wright Brothers and Mitchell, given?
- Why might two cadets taking the same milestone exam get different questions?
- How much time does a cadet get for the Wright Brothers Award exam?
- What kind of test is the drill and ceremonies test in Achievements 1 to 8?
- How does a cadet earn honor credit for an achievement?
- Where do Learn to Lead test questions come from?
- On the Achievement 1 drill test, how many of the 15 commands must a cadet do correctly?
- How many questions are on each Spaatz Award exam for leadership and aerospace?
- What is the title of Learn to Lead volume 1?
- According to Learn to Lead, where does a person's leadership ability come from?
- What does Learn to Lead call the most important element of leadership?
- Having a 'warrior spirit' means promising yourself you will never do what?
- Which list names CAP's four Core Values?
- Which best describes the Core Value of Integrity?
- The Core Value of Volunteer Service is mainly about what?
- A cadet who values Excellence makes a commitment to what?
- According to Learn to Lead, a respectful person treats others how?
- Learn to Lead sums up self-discipline in one word. What is it?
- What is an oath?
- The Cadet Oath says 'obey my officers.' What if an officer orders something morally wrong?
- Learn to Lead defines the word 'cadet' as what?
- The Cadet Oath ends by preparing the cadet to serve whom?
- What are all military customs and courtesies rooted in?
- The military salute traces back to which old custom?
- A uniformed cadet meets a senior officer outdoors where salutes are required. Who salutes first?
- A cadet standing in formation sees an officer walk by. What should the cadet do?
- Which of these indoor situations normally requires a cadet to salute?
- When reporting to an officer at a desk, how far away does the cadet halt?
- When a junior cadet walks with an officer, which side does the cadet walk on?
- Learn to Lead says wearing the cadet uniform is what?
- According to Learn to Lead, a unit's performance on the drill field measures what?
- What is the chain of command, put simply?
- What is 'jumping the chain'?
- At the position of attention, what angle do the feet form?
- On the command Parade, REST, how far apart does the cadet place the heels?
- Which rest position lets cadets talk quietly while staying in formation?
- In the drill command Parade, REST, what is the word REST called?
- How far does a cadet turn on the command About, FACE?
- What does an unarmed cadet do on the command Present, ARMS?
- On Dress Right, DRESS, what does a cadet who is not last in an element do with the left arm?
- According to Learn to Lead, where did the cadet tradition begin?
- What is a future picture in personal goal-setting?
- Why should you write a goal in specific words?
- Why use a process for an ethical decision? 🔒
- What should a leader consider before choosing among solutions? 🔒
- How should a useful do list organize tasks? 🔒
- What is a good way to start an overwhelming project? 🔒
- Can stress ever help a person perform? 🔒
- Which healthy habit can release tension during stress? 🔒
- What turns a collection of people into a team? 🔒
- How can different talents make a team stronger? 🔒
- Why does team spirit improve cooperation? 🔒
- What does selflessness mean on a team? 🔒
- What does loyalty require from a team member? 🔒
- What is a mentor? 🔒
- How is listening different from merely hearing? 🔒
- How can you confirm detailed instructions? 🔒
- Why is feedback important in communication? 🔒
- Which question type usually asks why? 🔒
- What makes reading critical rather than passive? 🔒
- What do the letters in the SQ3R reading method stand for? 🔒
- What does the command FALL IN tell a flight to do? 🔒
- What is the purpose of Dress Right, DRESS? 🔒
- From what position are facing movements performed? 🔒
- Which foot steps first on Forward, MARCH from a halt? 🔒
- What does a flanking movement do while marching? 🔒
- Why would a flight execute Open Ranks, MARCH? 🔒
- What does Close Ranks, MARCH accomplish? 🔒
- Which statement matches the Air Force definition of leadership? 🔒
- What three parts appear in most leadership definitions? 🔒
- Must someone hold command authority to lead? 🔒
- What does accountability require from a leader? 🔒
- Which method belongs to genuine leadership? 🔒
- Which leadership role did Billy Mitchell's airpower ideas illustrate? 🔒
- Which leadership role did Kennedy's moon challenge illustrate? 🔒
- Which leadership role did Martin Luther King Jr. especially demonstrate? 🔒
- Which leadership role did Jimmy Doolittle's technical knowledge illustrate? 🔒
- Which leadership role did Anne Sullivan illustrate with Helen Keller? 🔒
- What does Great Man theory claim about leaders? 🔒
- How does trait theory try to explain leadership? 🔒
- What did Congress establish about the U.S. flag in 1777? 🔒
- When a U.S. flag hangs flat on a wall, where does the blue field of stars go? 🔒
- When is it acceptable to fly the U.S. flag upside down? 🔒
- When placing a flag at half-staff from the ground, what happens first? 🔒
- When the U.S. flag is displayed in a group of flags, where does it go? 🔒
- What should be done with a U.S. flag that is worn out and tattered? 🔒
- In drill, what does Column Right, MARCH do to a flight marching in column? 🔒
- How far does Column Half Right, MARCH turn a column? 🔒
- Which drill command makes a slight turn, under 45 degrees, with no pivot? 🔒
- What does Column of Files from the Right, Forward, MARCH form? 🔒
- In Column of Files, what do the element leaders who are not moving first command? 🔒
- In the drill command Forward, MARCH, what job does the word MARCH do? 🔒
- Which of these is a combined command, with no separate preparatory part? 🔒
- A leader calls the wrong preparatory command. Which command cancels it? 🔒
- Why do drill leaders pronounce the command MARCH as 'HARCH'? 🔒
- Which part of a two-part drill command is given at the higher pitch? 🔒
- While marching, on which foot are both parts of Column Right, MARCH timed? 🔒
- For a flight, about how long should the pause be between the preparatory command and the command of execution? 🔒
- Which command voice quality is the extra something that demands an immediate response? 🔒
- When a leader is facing away from the unit, over which shoulder are commands usually given? 🔒
- What position is a leader in when giving drill commands? 🔒
- In the manual of the guidon, what is 'order guidon'? 🔒
- At carry guidon, where is the bottom tip (ferrule) of the staff? 🔒
- When holding a guidon outside formation, which hand does the bearer use to salute? 🔒
- The guidon bearer is the flag bearer for which leader? 🔒
- Learn to Lead says being paid is not what makes a professional. Which is one of its three marks? 🔒
- According to Learn to Lead, what is the most important standard of all? 🔒
- A cadet NCO sees a cadet doing a task the wrong way. What does Learn to Lead say the NCO should do? 🔒
- The Air Force names three areas of NCO readiness: technical, physical and what? 🔒
- On a campout, what would a servant leader most likely do at mealtime? 🔒
- In coaching, what does 'empowerment' mean? 🔒
- What does punishment alone fail to teach? 🔒
- What is the classic leadership rule about praise and correction? 🔒
- A cadet shovels a neighbor's driveway for free, just because it feels good. What kind of motivation is that? 🔒
- A pilot leading an aircrew on a search mission is leading at which level? 🔒
- What is 'command intent'? 🔒
- A whole team goes out for ice cream nobody wanted, because no one spoke up. What is that called? 🔒
- In the forming, storming, norming, performing model, which stage is full of clashes and conflict? 🔒
- In the L.E.A.D. team leadership model, what does the D stand for? 🔒
- In Learn to Lead, what does 'critical thinking' mean? 🔒
- A leader knows the flight has 24 cadets but says 'between 2 and 200.' Which standard is missing? 🔒
- Focused thinking uses the 80/20 rule. What does it tell a leader to do? 🔒
- Instead of answering your argument, someone insults you. Which logical fallacy is that? 🔒
- 'We've always done it this way, so we shouldn't change.' Which fallacy is that? 🔒
- 'I wore my lucky socks and aced the test, so the socks did it.' Which fallacy is that? 🔒
- 'Either you play a sport or you join cadets. You can't do both.' Which fallacy is that? 🔒
- What leadership lesson does Learn to Lead draw from Tucker's innovative car? 🔒
- How can strong respect for a majority opinion discourage creative thinking? 🔒
- Learn to Lead calls Apollo 13 a victory of creative thinking. What did the engineers have to do? 🔒
- Learn to Lead defines creative thinking as concentration plus what? 🔒
- What should a team avoid while brainstorming ideas? 🔒
- What makes a mind map different from a traditional outline? 🔒
- What does a learning objective describe? 🔒
- Which wording makes the strongest learning objective? 🔒
- Which list names the four learning channels in the cadet text? 🔒
- Why should an instructor present material in several ways? 🔒
- What is a major weakness of the lecture method? 🔒
- Which method best teaches a physical drill movement? 🔒
- What makes a learning evaluation valid? 🔒
- What should follow an evaluation? 🔒
- How many elements make up a drill flight? 🔒
- What does the guide regulate while a flight marches? 🔒
- Which view best explains how personality develops? 🔒
- How can a leader influence a teammate's development? 🔒
- What does birth order theory claim? 🔒
- Why should a leader avoid relying only on charisma? 🔒
- What are the four arenas of the Johari Window? 🔒
- How can feedback reduce a Johari blind spot? 🔒
- How many personality types does the MBTI model describe? 🔒
- Which MBTI type is the best type? 🔒
- In Maslow's model, which unmet need gets attention first? 🔒
- What is at the top of Maslow's hierarchy? 🔒
- What leadership lesson does Learn to Lead draw from the Hawthorne studies? 🔒
- What happens in classical conditioning? 🔒
- What warning should leaders take from the Milgram experiment? 🔒
- What is a psychological defense mechanism? 🔒
- Which defense mechanism assigns your own hidden feelings to someone else? 🔒
- What turns a difference of opinion into conflict? 🔒
- Must teammates like each other to work professionally? 🔒
- What makes mediation different from a two-person argument? 🔒
- What basic principle should guide a leader on a diverse team? 🔒
- What skill becomes more important as America's population grows more diverse? 🔒
- What does prejudice do to an individual? 🔒
- What should a leader do when harassment appears on the team? 🔒
- In the five-step process, what does Rise Up mean? 🔒
- How should a leader support someone targeted by harassment? 🔒
- In which formation does a squadron normally march? 🔒
- Do flight commanders repeat a squadron command that is combined? 🔒
- What does emotional self-awareness require? 🔒
- What is a self-fulfilling prophecy? 🔒
- A friend shares your secret and you're furious. Which emotion tool means quietly talking to yourself first? 🔒
- "I can do this. This project isn't too big for me." What is that an example of? 🔒
- Picturing yourself confidently giving a great speech before you give it is called what? 🔒
- What are the two classic mistakes people make when setting goals? 🔒
- Which Berlin Airlift pilot showed empathy by dropping candy on tiny parachutes to children? 🔒
- In leadership, what does "interpersonal skill" mainly mean? 🔒
- Which leadership type tries to raise followers' motivation and values, not just trade rewards for work? 🔒
- A leader whose principles and example make followers want to be like them shows which factor? 🔒
- A leader who sets high expectations and fires up team spirit for a shared vision shows which factor? 🔒
- A leader who wants the team to question ideas, even the leader's, instead of being "yes" people shows what? 🔒
- A leader who listens closely and coaches each follower based on that person's unique needs shows what? 🔒
- You earn a promotion after finishing requirements agreed on in advance. Which leadership factor is that? 🔒
- A leader watches trainees closely and corrects mistakes as they happen. What is this called? 🔒
- A commander hands you a list of your mistakes a month later, with no real feedback. What is this? 🔒
- "Laissez-faire" leadership, from a French term, describes what kind of approach? 🔒
- In Learn to Lead, what does "power" mean? 🔒
- Cadets follow orders because the person holds the commander's job. Which type of power is this? 🔒
- Followers go along because the leader can hand out awards and privileges. Which type of power is this? 🔒
- Followers obey only because they fear punishment. Which type of power is the leader using? 🔒
- Cadets listen to a pilot because she knows aircraft inside and out. Which type of power is that? 🔒
- Followers support a leader because they like and respect him. Which type of power is that? 🔒
- Farmers removed the leopards, then baboons overran their crops. Which leadership idea explains this? 🔒
- In a learning organization, helping each person grow toward their fullest potential is called what? 🔒
- In a learning organization, where does a shared vision come from? 🔒
- Team learning starts when everyone on the team moves in the same direction. What is that called? 🔒
- What is it called when team members freely explore ideas, like brainstorming, to get smarter together? 🔒
- Deeply held pictures of how the world works that keep us stuck in familiar thinking are called what? 🔒
- What we say we believe versus what our actions show we believe. What are these two called? 🔒
- Asking questions to gather more information before deciding is called what? 🔒
- "Every challenge is unique, so match your leadership style to it" is the main idea of which theory? 🔒
- When is the authoritarian leadership style the best fit? 🔒
- A cadet commander lets every cadet help choose the squadron's goals. Which style is this? 🔒
- Which leadership model says the leader's job is to clear the way so followers can reach their goals? 🔒
- In the path-goal model, which leader behavior fits best when a task is complicated or brand new? 🔒
- The Leadership Grid rates leaders by their concern for which two things? 🔒
- On the Leadership Grid, which style is considered the ideal? 🔒
- Which Leadership Grid style changes approach based on "What's in it for me?" 🔒
- In drill and ceremonies, what makes up a group? 🔒
- While forming the group, the adjutant moves at "adjutant's cadence." How fast is that? 🔒
- Which command tells squadron commanders to march their squadrons off and dismiss them? 🔒
- Which ceremony marks the end of the official duty day and pays respect to the flag? 🔒
- In flag ceremonies, how is the flag raised, and how is it lowered? 🔒
- In a CAP change of command ceremony, what is passed between commanders to show authority moving? 🔒
- In a change of command ceremony, what does the outgoing commander say while saluting? 🔒
- What does a specific communication purpose state? 🔒
- What are the three broad purposes of communication? 🔒
- Why should a speaker analyze the audience first? 🔒
- What is the main benefit of outlining before communicating? 🔒
- Which wording principle makes a message clearer? 🔒
- What is the main goal of written communication? 🔒
- What turns a claim into a supported argument? 🔒
- What should you do during an initial brainstorm? 🔒
- In an essay, what is an argument? 🔒
- What job does a topic sentence perform? 🔒
- What should an effective opening do first? 🔒
- What does a thesis statement express? 🔒
- What do transitions do in an essay? 🔒
- Why should a writer address a likely objection? 🔒
- What should an essay conclusion do? 🔒
- When is a staff study useful? 🔒
- How should a staff study state its problem? 🔒
- Which item belongs under factors bearing on a staff study problem? 🔒
- What belongs in a staff study's discussion section? 🔒
- What should the action recommended section make clear? 🔒
- What style best fits a routine professional email? 🔒
- How should a leader handle an emotional disagreement? 🔒
- Which tool is better than email for an urgent remote message? 🔒
- Which list names the four common speech methods? 🔒
- What defines an impromptu speech? 🔒
- Why is extemporaneous delivery effective for formal speeches? 🔒
- What is the central idea in a speech outline? 🔒
- What should a speech introduction preview? 🔒
- What is a signpost in public speaking? 🔒
- How should an informative or persuasive speech end? 🔒
- What is a resume designed to show? 🔒
- Which preparation helps at a job interview? 🔒
- Why think carefully before posting on social media? 🔒
- What is a formal drill review meant to display? 🔒
- What changed with the rise of the modern officer corps? 🔒
- What is indirect leadership through a link? 🔒
- When is a manuscript speech most justified? 🔒
- When should a communicator prefer a familiar word? 🔒
- What does eliminating clutter from writing mean? 🔒
- Why is active voice often a strong choice? 🔒
- What does putting a statement in positive form do? 🔒
- What makes a list grammatically parallel? 🔒
- In American thinking, where does a leader's rightful power come from? 🔒
- A CAP pilot treats an expensive search plane as carefully as if it were her own. What is that called? 🔒
- In leadership, what does the word dissent mean? 🔒
- You disagree with your commander's plan. What is a respectful way to dissent? 🔒
- Whose dissent helped lead to the creation of an independent US Air Force? 🔒
- Why should a cadet officer study different ethical theories? 🔒
- Which idea says there are no moral rules that apply to everyone everywhere? 🔒
- What is one criticism of moral relativism mentioned in Learn to Lead? 🔒
- Which view says some moral principles are true for everyone, no matter the culture? 🔒
- How does Learn to Lead say moral objectivism differs from moral absolutism? 🔒
- In virtue ethics, what does happiness really mean? 🔒
- In virtue ethics, where does a virtue like friendliness to neighbors usually sit? 🔒
- Which ethical theory judges actions by the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people? 🔒
- When judging a heroic act, what do utilitarians care about most? 🔒
- A squadron uses merits and demerits to build character. Which approach is that? 🔒
- Leadership by example, where cadets learn by watching good role models, is called what? 🔒
- How many stages of moral development did Lawrence Kohlberg describe? 🔒
- Using Kohlberg's ideas, how should a leader help followers grow morally? 🔒
- Two people argue about grades when the real issue is something else. What type of conflict is this? 🔒
- A rumor makes two friends mad at each other when a third person started it. What type of conflict? 🔒
- You're annoyed by a problem but avoid bringing it up for weeks. What type of conflict is that? 🔒
- In the model of interpersonal conflict, which phase is the most visible part? 🔒
- Why should leaders care about the long-term outcomes of a conflict? 🔒
- In negotiation, what is your BATNA? 🔒
- Two sides quickly split the difference down the middle. Which negotiation strategy is that? 🔒
- What is the basic idea behind the Cooperative Negotiating Strategy? 🔒
- When you speak up against a bigoted remark, what should you focus on? 🔒
- Why set limits on hurtful language even if the person's attitude doesn't change? 🔒
- In a cadet squadron, which group makes up the organization's operating core? 🔒
- How is the technostructure different from the support staff in an organization? 🔒
- What does the term span of control mean? 🔒
- Why are people more likely to accept a decision made by a committee? 🔒
- What is a standing committee? 🔒
- What makes an objective-driven meeting agenda better than a simple list of topics? 🔒
- A good committee chair or meeting facilitator focuses mainly on what? 🔒
- In parliamentary procedure, what is a quorum? 🔒
- After the chair calls a meeting to order, what is the first order of business? 🔒
- According to Learn to Lead, how are elections of officers decided? 🔒
- A squadron's transportation officer supervises nobody. Is that officer still a manager? 🔒
- Peter Drucker said managers should focus on what? 🔒
- What are the four functions of management taught in Learn to Lead? 🔒
- Cadet staff compare uniforms in an inspection to the uniform manual. Which management function is that? 🔒
- In a cadet setting, who is typically the project sponsor? 🔒
- According to Learn to Lead, who are the most important people in a project? 🔒
- What is the order of the four project lifecycle phases? 🔒
- Why does a project team schedule checkpoints during execution? 🔒
- What must a staff writer learn before drafting for a commander? 🔒
- What makes a proposal completed staff work? 🔒
- Where should the key point appear in web writing? 🔒
- When should web instructions use a numbered list? 🔒
- What distinguishes an informational briefing? 🔒
- What should an honest advocacy briefing include? 🔒
- What is the main job of an information display? 🔒
- Why send a read-ahead before a meeting or briefing? 🔒
- What does focused eye contact help a speaker create? 🔒
- How can a speaker discover distracting nervous habits? 🔒
- What should an incoming commander study before taking command? 🔒
- What is an early priority for a new commander? 🔒
- Should a new commander invent a new personality? 🔒
- What should a new commander remember about rank? 🔒
- What does command intent add beyond a task? 🔒
- What decision boundary should command intent explain? 🔒
- What does the term human capital emphasize? 🔒
- Why should a job description include performance standards? 🔒
- What does the Full Range Leadership Model organize? 🔒
- Which four behaviors form transformational leadership's four I's? 🔒
- Which three ideas must effective delegation connect? 🔒
- How much authority should accompany a delegated responsibility? 🔒
- What is organizational culture at its core? 🔒
- Why must leaders consider culture when changing a team? 🔒
- What begins a three-phase organizational culture change? 🔒
- How should rewards support a desired culture change? 🔒
- When should a team consider safety? 🔒
- Who is responsible for safety on a team? 🔒
- What does a performance appraisal measure? 🔒
- What makes feedback 360-degree? 🔒
- When measuring a team, what matters more than completed processes? 🔒
- Why can one performance metric mislead a leader? 🔒
- What three parts does strategy connect in Guillot's reading? 🔒
- What broad foundation of national security does the 2010 reading emphasize? 🔒
- How does systems thinking improve on simple cause and effect? 🔒
- According to Tregoe and Zimmerman, what comes before operational planning? 🔒
- What must a crowdsourcing system do besides attract contributors? 🔒
- What risky assumption should volunteer leaders avoid? 🔒
- What should volunteer recruitment define before asking people to serve? 🔒
- In the hierarchy of ethical values for nonprofits, what is the bottom level everything else rests on? 🔒
- What is the highest level in the hierarchy of ethical values for nonprofit organizations? 🔒
- In the nonprofit ethics hierarchy, Level 2 is accountability. What does it mainly mean? 🔒
- A nonprofit looks for donors who already care about its mission. Which ethical level is that? 🔒
- Laws and IRS rules push a nonprofit to behave. How far up the ethics hierarchy can outside rules alone take it? 🔒
- At the respect level of the nonprofit ethics hierarchy, how are donors and volunteers treated? 🔒
- A leader wants to be more transparent with the team. What should they share? 🔒
- Before announcing a hiring freeze, what should a leader do for the managers? 🔒
- What does 'public and private management are fundamentally alike in all unimportant respects' mean? 🔒
- In a company, one CEO holds the general management powers. In the U.S. government, where are they? 🔒
- According to Allison, how is a private business executive usually judged? 🔒
- How did Gen Carl Spaatz define strategic bombing? 🔒
- Gen Spaatz said Germany misused its fighters in the Battle of Britain. What was the mistake? 🔒
- Bombers from many bases all strike one target at the same time. Which principle of war is that? 🔒
- Looking back on World War II, what did Gen Spaatz say about airpower winning the war by itself? 🔒
- After serving as the first Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, what CAP role did Gen Carl Spaatz hold? 🔒
- In Col John Warden's five rings model, what sits in the center ring? 🔒
- Col John Warden's five rings model became the basis of which air plan? 🔒
- What was Kenneth Walker's 'inviolable principle' for bombers at the Air Corps Tactical School? 🔒
- Critics say both the Air Corps Tactical School and Warden leaned too hard on comparisons like 'web' and 'body.' What is that flaw? 🔒
- In late 2005, the Air Force changed its mission statement. What new domain did it add to air and space? 🔒
- Why does the reading say cyberspace follows 'nontraditional physics'? 🔒
- In the Learn to Lead doctrine selection, airpower projects power by controlling which domains? 🔒
- Which general coined the word 'airmindedness' for the Airman's special way of thinking? 🔒
- The nuclear triad has three legs. Which list names them? 🔒
- A leader keeps running the inquiry, engagement and review cycle to change a team's culture. What happens at the tipping point? 🔒
- Old change models 'refroze' a culture after a change. In Goldberg's framework, what final stage replaces refreezing? 🔒
- Karakas says modern leaders need a mind-set and a heart-set. What is the heart-set? 🔒
- A cadet leader says nothing about a problem but rolls their eyes. Which strategic communication principle does this show? 🔒
- According to MIT ombudsman Mary Rowe, what is the most important element of effective negotiation? 🔒
- You read a stranger's mood from one quick look at their face. What is that skill called? 🔒
- A group like Doctors Without Borders helps ease tension between two countries. What kind of diplomacy is that? 🔒
- Two cadets argue over the last practice slot. In principled bargaining, what should they focus on first? 🔒
- Bringing future foreign leaders to study at American universities is an example of what? 🔒
- While marching, a cadet hears Flight, HALT. What happens after the word HALT? 🔒
- A flight marching in quick time gets Double Time, MARCH. What does each cadet do? 🔒
- On Right Step, MARCH, how far does the right foot move each step? 🔒
- What does the command To the Rear, MARCH make a marching flight do? 🔒
- On Eyes, RIGHT while marching, which cadets do NOT turn their heads? 🔒
- On the Wright Brothers Award drill test, how many of the 20 commands must a cadet do right? 🔒
- On the Achievement 4 drill test, the cadet leads an element. What is graded? 🔒
- How do later flights handle a squadron column movement? 🔒
- Which drill term means cadets standing one behind another? 🔒
- What is normal interval between cadets standing side by side? 🔒
- What does cadence measure in marching? 🔒
- What is a main purpose of a ceremony? 🔒
- What should an instructor explain first when teaching a drill movement? 🔒
- What does training by the numbers let cadets do? 🔒
- What does the preparatory part of a drill command explain? 🔒
- Why does an instructor count cadence? 🔒
- What leadership skill do mass commands develop? 🔒
- How is body weight balanced at attention? 🔒
- Which rest position permits moderate speech? 🔒
- Is the Pledge recited during military formations and ceremonies? 🔒
- When does the Air Force avoid firing gun salutes? 🔒
- What does Present, ARMS tell an unarmed formation to do? 🔒
- Which movement marches in place at quick time? 🔒
- How long is a half step in marching? 🔒
- What problem does Change Step fix? 🔒
- What does face in marching allow from a halt? 🔒
- What separates At Ease March from Route Step March? 🔒
- Where is the guide normally positioned within a flight? 🔒
- Which command aligns a flight in column? 🔒
- In which direction does a line count off? 🔒
- What interval change does Close, MARCH make? 🔒
- Which movement changes a column's direction less than 45 degrees? 🔒
- When are single-file and multiple-file forming movements begun? 🔒
- What stays at the front after a counter march? 🔒
- When are Right Step and Left Step used? 🔒
- When you swear an oath, what are you putting on the line? 🔒
- The Cadet Oath begins 'I pledge that I will serve faithfully.' What does faithfully mean? 🔒
- The oath says 'attend meetings regularly.' What if a cadet must miss one now and then? 🔒
- What are you promising when the Cadet Oath says 'participate actively in unit activities'? 🔒
- Why does the oath line 'wear my uniform properly' carry a special obligation? 🔒
- The oath promises to 'advance my education and training rapidly.' What is a cadet's primary job? 🔒
- To be eligible for a cadet promotion, how must a cadet know the Cadet Oath? 🔒
- Learn to Lead calls the Core Values 'the price of admission' to CAP. What does that mean? 🔒
- How do CAP's Core Values relate to religion? 🔒
- CAP borrowed the idea for its four Core Values from which organization? 🔒
- Your teammate built most of the squadron's model rocket. What would a person of integrity do? 🔒
- Any cadet who thinks someone could soon get hurt may call which command to stop everything? 🔒
- A cadet needs to report bullying. Must they go through the chain of command? 🔒
- Which of these is a cadet NOT allowed to bring to a CAP activity? 🔒
- A cadet borrows a squadron radio and tosses it around for fun. What does that break? 🔒
- You accidentally knock over the flag stand while nobody is looking. What does the cadet standard expect? 🔒
- A cadet is late. May the cadet NCO order push-ups as a punishment? 🔒
- What is the correct order of the four Cadet Program phases? 🔒
- Which milestone award marks the end of Phase I, the Learning Phase? 🔒
- Before a cadet may test for the Spaatz Award, which award must they already have? 🔒
- In Phase I, the Learning Phase, what is the main leadership focus? 🔒
- Achievement 1 is named for Maj Gen John F. Curry. Who was he? 🔒
- Hap Arnold, namesake of Achievement 2, was the first person to hold which rank? 🔒
- Col Mary Feik, namesake of Achievement 3, is best known for what? 🔒
- Eddie Rickenbacker, namesake of Achievement 4, earned which World War I nickname? 🔒
- Jimmy Doolittle, namesake of Achievement 6, was the first airman to do what? 🔒
- Achievement 7 honors the man called 'The Father of Modern Rocketry.' Who is he? 🔒
- Before he became an astronaut, what was Neil Armstrong's job at NASA? 🔒
- Willa Brown, namesake of Achievement 10, was the first African American woman to do what? 🔒
- Col George Boyd, namesake of Achievement 14, earned two Congressional Gold Medals. One was for CAP cadet service. The other? 🔒
- Dr. Sally Ride, namesake of Achievement 15, was the first American woman to do what? 🔒
- On what date did the Wright brothers make the first powered, controlled, sustained airplane flight? 🔒
- Amelia Earhart, namesake of the Phase III milestone, helped organize which group? 🔒
- In 1929, Ira Eaker and Carl Spaatz stayed aloft nearly a week in the 'Question Mark' to show off what? 🔒
- Carl 'Tooey' Spaatz, namesake of the top cadet award, was the first to hold which job? 🔒
- When a squadron is in mass formation, where do the tallest cadets stand? 🔒
- Who forms the squadron in line by commanding FALL IN? 🔒
- When a squadron is inspected, whom does the inspector check first? 🔒
- Why would a squadron use the extended mass formation? 🔒
- A squadron in mass formation needs to change direction. What is the command? 🔒
- What official formation does the Air Force require for physical training? 🔒
- The squadron is splitting up, but the commander doesn't want to dismiss cadets. What's the command? 🔒
- In drill, what is the smallest formation that has a staff? 🔒
- In drill and ceremonies, what is a parade? 🔒
- What does Reveille signal? 🔒
- You're outdoors in uniform, not in a formation, when Reveille starts playing. What do you do? 🔒
- From which side of the flagstaff is the flag raised and lowered? 🔒
- In a CAP color guard, who is the commander and gives all the commands? 🔒
- Why doesn't a color guard ever do About, FACE or To the Rear, MARCH? 🔒
- On what date did Civil Air Patrol begin national operations? 🔒
- What honor did Congress award to Civil Air Patrol's World War II members? 🔒
- Who directed Civil Air Patrol's national headquarters when it began operating? 🔒
- Which CAP founder does the New Cadet Guide describe as an aviator and poet? 🔒
- Which of these is NOT one of Civil Air Patrol's three missions? 🔒
- In what year did Congress make Civil Air Patrol the civilian auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force? 🔒
- What kind of organization is Civil Air Patrol? 🔒
- In what year did Civil Air Patrol's Cadet Program begin? 🔒
- What does Civil Air Patrol's motto, "Semper Vigilans," mean? 🔒
- What does the Cadet Program's mission say it develops? 🔒
- Which four elements make up the Civil Air Patrol Cadet Program? 🔒
- In most CAP squadrons, what is the minimum age to join as a cadet? 🔒
- About how long is a typical weekly CAP squadron meeting? 🔒
- How many achievements are in the Civil Air Patrol cadet program? 🔒
- Which is the first milestone award that requires completing an encampment? 🔒
- Which milestone award requires completing a leadership academy? 🔒
- Which award is the pinnacle of the Civil Air Patrol Cadet Program? 🔒
- What grade does a cadet receive when the Spaatz Award is posted? 🔒
- After reaching what age can a cadet normally no longer test for the Spaatz Award? 🔒
- Earning which milestone award promotes a cadet to Cadet Captain? 🔒
- What is the minimum time between cadet achievements? 🔒
- What grade does a brand-new CAP cadet start with? 🔒
- Which cadet grade comes right after Cadet Chief Master Sergeant? 🔒
- Whose core values did Civil Air Patrol borrow for its own? 🔒
- Which promise is part of the Cadet Oath? 🔒
- What must a cadet recite from memory for every achievement and award? 🔒
- Which side is the place of honor when walking with an officer? 🔒
- How should a cadet address a superior officer? 🔒
- What helps new cadets pay for their first uniforms after Achievement 1? 🔒
- In CAP drill, how long is a quick-time marching step? 🔒
- How fast is double time in drill? 🔒
- In drill, a flight is made up of how many elements? 🔒
- Most drill commands have two parts. What are they? 🔒
- What is the entry-level leadership position on the cadet staff? 🔒
- About how many cadets does a flight sergeant lead? 🔒
- Which Air Force organization gives CAP day-to-day support, advice and liaison? 🔒
- Which merit-based CAP program helps cadets earn a Private Pilot Certificate? 🔒
- Which of these did Civil Air Patrol volunteers fly in World War II? 🔒
- CAP's cadet followership lesson says that before you take responsibility for others, you must first take responsibility for whom? 🔒
- According to CAP's cadet followership lesson, every leader is also a what? 🔒
- Which communication skill does Learn to Lead call the most neglected? 🔒
- Learn to Lead says we have one mouth and two ears, so we should spend how much time listening versus talking? 🔒
- In Learn to Lead, a team is a group of people committed to working together to achieve what? 🔒
- What is the first step of the ethical decision-making model in Learn to Lead? 🔒
- Learn to Lead says attitudes are what? 🔒
- Which of the four forces of flight is caused by gravity pulling toward the center of the Earth? 🔒
- Which force of flight acts opposite to the direction of motion? 🔒
- Which control surfaces control an airplane's roll? 🔒
- Which control surfaces control an airplane's pitch, its nose-up and nose-down motion? 🔒
- Which control surface controls an airplane's yaw, its nose swinging left or right? 🔒
- A wing stalls when it exceeds its critical what? 🔒
- Angle of attack is the angle between a wing's chord line and what? 🔒
- Wingtip vortices are created whenever a wing is doing what? 🔒
- Near the ground, a wing feels like it rides on a cushion of trapped air. What is this called? 🔒
- Which law of motion explains why a rocket moves forward when hot gas shoots out of its back? 🔒
- Why can a rocket engine work in the vacuum of space? 🔒
- For a stable model rocket, where should the center of pressure be compared to the center of gravity? 🔒
- The model rocket safety code in CAP's guide says to launch only when winds are no greater than what speed? 🔒
- The model rocket safety code says to point the launcher within how many degrees of vertical? 🔒
- Under the model rocket safety code, what must you never put in your rocket? 🔒
- Why do many rockets drop sections, called stages, as they climb? 🔒
- Reaching orbit takes altitude and what else? 🔒
- About how many times does the International Space Station orbit Earth in 24 hours? 🔒
- Which cloud name describes thin, feathery clouds made of ice crystals? 🔒
- The word 'stratus' in a cloud name means what? 🔒
- In which stage of a thunderstorm does rain begin to fall, creating a downdraft beside the updraft? 🔒
- On a CAP search aircraft, where does the mission observer usually sit? 🔒
- On a CAP search and rescue mission aircraft, who is the aircraft commander? 🔒
- Which aircrew qualification must a CAP member earn before becoming a mission observer or mission pilot? 🔒
- How many hours of pilot-in-command time does CAP require to begin Mission Pilot training? 🔒
- Which of these CAP search patterns is a point-based search? 🔒
- Which emergency beacon frequency can search and rescue satellites detect today? 🔒
- A registered 406 MHz distress beacon has a unique hex ID. How many characters long is it? 🔒
- In CAP emergency services, who must directly supervise cadets under age 18? 🔒
- FEMA's IS-100 course introduces which system used to organize emergency response? 🔒
- In CAP ground qualifications, what does 'UDF' stand for? 🔒
- How many front-seat CAP orientation flights can each cadet receive? 🔒
- On a cadet orientation flight, who remains in command at all times? 🔒
- A CAP encampment must offer at least how many contact hours? 🔒
- Which encampment block must offer the most contact hours: leadership, aerospace, fitness or character? 🔒
- To apply for Cadet Officer School, a cadet must already hold which award? 🔒
- What must a cadet complete before applying for any National Cadet Special Activity? 🔒
- What is the first step in CAP's five-step risk management process? 🔒
- What command can any participant sound in a CAP activity to stop something dangerous? 🔒
- CAP activity safety guidance gives each cadet a buddy for support and safety. What is that buddy called? 🔒
- Which phrase is CAP's four-part safety program slogan? 🔒
- What is the final step of the seven-step ethical decision-making model in Learn to Lead? 🔒