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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Charles Lindbergh like as a student?
(a) Exceptional.
(b) Middling.
(c) Bad.
(d) Undistinguished.

2. How does Denenberg explain Lindbergh's feelings about his nickname?
(a) He felt like he was being celebrated for the wrong trait.
(b) He felt like it was a caricature but it was all the media needed to see.
(c) He felt that planning, not luck, had explained his success.
(d) He felt that his sense of humor had been misrepresented.

3. What was conventional wisdom for how to pursue the Orteig prize?
(a) To use as much horsepower and as small a plane as possible.
(b) To use a multi-engine plane with a pilot and navigator.
(c) To use a cantilevered monoplane with structural reinforcements.
(d) To get into the jet stream.

4. Who was Harry Knight?
(a) Lindbergh's mechanic.
(b) Lindbergh's instructor.
(c) Lindbergh's business partner.
(d) The money behind Lindbergh's attempt at the Orteig prize.

5. Why were lessons few and far between at the Ray Page's Flying School?
(a) Page had been spooked when he saw a friend die in a plane crash.
(b) Page was an alcoholic, and his flying days were few and far between.
(c) Page was always traveling around looking for schemes for making money.
(d) Page had difficulty keeping his craft in flying condition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Lindbergh's policy about a parachute on the transatlantic flight?

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

3. What did C.A. Lindbergh accomplish in 1906?

4. What was the public's reaction to Lindbergh's manner in front of cameras?

5. What happened to the flyers who set out for the Orteig prize before Lindbergh?

(see the answer key)

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