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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Orville drop out of high school?
(a) To start a plane business.
(b) To start a toy business.
(c) To start a printing business.
(d) To start a bike business.

2. Why was the testing of the Wrights' new glider postponed from August to September?
(a) They had to rebuild their shelter.
(b) They had to wait for good weather.
(c) They had to assemble the glider.
(d) They had to wait for the glider.

3. What was the wing span of the Wright brothers' largest glider after running their wing experiments?
(a) 42 feet.
(b) 22 feet.
(c) 32 feet.
(d) 62 feet.

4. What were the two approaches to studying flight in the late 1800s?
(a) Mathematical models and real models.
(b) Mathematical models and manned gliders.
(c) Models and flight using animals.
(d) Models and manned gliders.

5. What did the Wright brothers do on rainy days at Kill Devil Hills?
(a) Designed a new airplane.
(b) Calculated fligt parameters.
(c) Applied for a patent.
(d) Assembled the motorized plane.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Wright brothers start to devise a way to do at the end of Chapter 5?

2. When did the Wright brothers arrive at Kill Devil Hills?

3. How was the Wrights' glider sent to Kitty Hawk?

4. What did the Wright brothers realize concerning the data they had in Chapter 5?

5. When did George Cayley build the first successful model gliders?

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