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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many wing models did the Wright brothers test?
(a) 200.
(b) 40.
(c) 350.
(d) 250.

2. What did the Wright brothers start to devise a way to do at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) Add a cabine for the pilot.
(b) Add larger wings.
(c) Put two people on the glider.
(d) Attach a motor on the glider.

3. What did the Wright brothers know they wouldn't do at the start of Chapter 6?
(a) Add a wood cabin for the pilot.
(b) Attach any motor on one of the glider.
(c) Put three people on a plane.
(d) Add larger fabric wings.

4. How long after their flight did Wilbur and Orville contact a family member?
(a) 12 days after.
(b) 4 days after.
(c) 2 days after.
(d) The next day.

5. How many of the Wrights' flights went awry with their largest glider?
(a) 1 in 500.
(b) 5 in 50.
(c) 1 in 25.
(d) 1 in 50.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would need to be done to solve the problem of the awry flights?

2. What was the Wrights' mother's name?

3. How did the brothers decide who was going to pilot the new plane?

4. Where did George Cayley live?

5. Where did Orville go to to fix the shafts issues?

(see the answer key)

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