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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How successful was Lindbergh in his own barnstorming career?
(a) His skills attracted the notice of corporate sponsors.
(b) He would have been forgotten except for his dangerous stunts.
(c) He did not make money, but he learned a lot.
(d) He made a fortune.

2. What was C.A. Lindbergh's birth name?
(a) Mansson.
(b) Mansfield.
(c) Morrow.
(d) Lindbergh.

3. What was the Orteig prize for?
(a) A transatlantic flight.
(b) A flight to 40,000 feet.
(c) A transcontinental flight.
(d) An outside loop.

4. When did Lindbergh make his transatlantic flight?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1933.

5. What were Lindbergh and his flight team waiting for before he took off?
(a) Good weather.
(b) Official clearance.
(c) Permission to land in Paris.
(d) News about Lindbergh's mother's health.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who insisted that Charles Lindbergh attend college?

2. Where was C.A. Lindbergh's mother's house?

3. Where did Charles Lindbergh inherit his love of machinery?

4. What business were Orville and Wilbur Wright in, when they invented the airplane in 1903?

5. What happened to Charles Lindbergh's family when he was three and a half years old?

(see the answer key)

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