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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: What Seasons They Have Been Through, Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did the Wright brothers make the first controlled human flight?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1925.

2. When was Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated as President of the United States?
(a) March 4, 1933.
(b) July 1, 1932.
(c) October 9, 1933.
(d) ecember 14, 1930.

3. What term refers to a boat with a narrow, flat bottom, high bow, and flaring sides?
(a) Dory.
(b) Kayak.
(c) Dinghy.
(d) Clipper.

4. In what year did Joe Rantz's parents marry?
(a) 1875.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1882.

5. What was the name of the custom-built sectional boat that Sir Henry Stanley used to search for Dr. David Livingstone in Central Africa in 1874?
(a) SS Manhattan.
(b) The Green Dragon.
(c) Lady Alice.
(d) The Whitehorse.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what country was George Pocock born?

2. What was the name of the swing band that Roger Morris played with for extra money on the weekends while attending school at the University of Washington?

3. Where did Harry go to fetch a doctor when Thula went into labor in November of 1924?

4. Who was the first person to cross the United States by motor vehicle, traveling by motorcycle from San Francisco to New York?

5. What friend of Joe Rantz's was a central figure in one of Daniel James Brown's earlier books, according to the author in the Prologue?

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