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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Put two people on the glider.
(c) Add larger wings.
(d) Attach a motor on the glider.

2. What were the Wright brothers waiting for before flying again?
(a) For the Flyer 4 to be built.
(b) Patents to be awarded.
(c) The plane to sold.
(d) The media to pay attention.

3. When did Orville returned to Kill Devil Hills?
(a) December 1903.
(b) December 1906.
(c) December 1904.
(d) December 1905.

4. How many basic requirements would a powered flying machine have based on the Wright's research?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 9.

5. What did the Wright brothers decide to do about the data concerning flight?
(a) Only rely on the latest.
(b) Only rely on older data.
(c) To only rely on their own data.
(d) Only rely on unprocessed data.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bishop Wright compare his sons' reading habits to?

2. Where was Wilbur born?

3. How many of the Wrights' flights went awry with their largest glider?

4. What were Kitty Hawk's giant sand dunes known as?

5. How did Wilbur take the answer of its first prospect?

(see the answer key)

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