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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does chapter 5 consist of?
(a) Denenberg's dramatization.
(b) Denenberg's speculations.
(c) Lindbergh's journal.
(d) Lindbergh's letters.

2. Where was C.A. Lindbergh's mother's house?
(a) Little Falls, Minnesota.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Washington D.C.
(d) Little Falls, Colorado.

3. What happened to Charles Lindbergh's family when he was three and a half years old?
(a) A fire destroyed their home.
(b) Charles' mother died.
(c) Charles' brother was kidnapped.
(d) A flood destroyed their home.

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

5. What happened to Lindbergh in the 14th hour of the flight?
(a) He fell asleep.
(b) He lost his way.
(c) He flew too high.
(d) He stalled.

6. What drew Lindbergh to the facility where he learned to fly?
(a) The good pay.
(b) Quality of planes and training.
(c) The rate at which graduates were being placed in lucrative positions.
(d) He followed a friend who was going there.

7. What was Lindbergh's policy about a parachute on the transatlantic flight?
(a) He carried a very lightweight parachute.
(b) He carried a life raft instead.
(c) He had a parachute built for the plane in case of failure.
(d) He did not carry one.

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

9. What happened to the flyers who set out for the Orteig prize before Lindbergh?
(a) They crashed.
(b) They got lost.
(c) They never got off the ground.
(d) They ran out of fuel.

10. How would barnstormers make money?
(a) Cash for flying lessons.
(b) Cash prizes from flying contests.
(c) Cash for rides.
(d) Cash for daredevil performances.

11. What did have to do in the 14th hour to set things to rights again?
(a) Triangulate his position.
(b) Splash water on his face.
(c) Backtrack.
(d) Lose altitude.

12. Where did Charles Lindbergh inherit his love of machinery?
(a) His father.
(b) His paternal grandfather.
(c) His paternal great-grandfather.
(d) His maternal grandfather.

13. Why was Lindbergh reluctant to accept this from the President?
(a) He had planned to circumnavigate the globe.
(b) He had wanted to remain anonymous.
(c) He did not want fame.
(d) He had not planned to return to the U.S.

14. What kind of crisis does Lindbergh say he had in his ninth hour of flight?
(a) Nausea.
(b) Desire to be on the ground.
(c) Nostalgia.
(d) Sleepiness.

15. Where did Charles Lindbergh work as a teenager?
(a) At an airport.
(b) On a farm.
(c) At an ice distribution warehouse.
(d) At a motorcycle factory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What route did Lindbergh fly air mail for?

2. Who insisted that Charles Lindbergh attend college?

3. What happened to The Spirit of St. Louis after Lindbergh landed?

4. What was the make of the first plane bought?

5. How far was the first powered flight?

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