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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Orville and Wilbur do together as children according to Chapter 2?
(a) Chase girls.
(b) Explore.
(c) Everything.
(d) Eat.

2. How many full size gliders did Cayley build?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

3. When was Ed Sines promoted as manger of the bike shop?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1893.
(d) 1892.

4. What was the name of the Wrights' sister?
(a) Katherine.
(b) Juliette.
(c) Korina.
(d) Andrea.

5. How did the pilot steer the plane?
(a) Sitting on the lower wing.
(b) Laying down on the upper wing.
(c) Face down on the lower wing.
(d) Sitting on the upper wing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Wright brothers have in common in adulthood?

2. Where did George Cayley live?

3. What part of flight were the Wright brothers surprised was not paid attention to?

4. How much did the U.S. Army give Langley to continue his work on planes?

5. What birds did the Wright brothers study to design what they thought was imperative to successful flight?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Eilmer?

2. Where was Wilbur Wright when Root arrived?

3. How were the Wright brothers different?

4. What were the brothers prepared to do?

5. What did Amos Root hear of according to Chapter 1?

6. What did Leonardo da Vinci give thought to?

7. What did the brothers always have a knack for?

8. What did Root do upon returning to Medina, Ohio?

9. What was the difference between the Wright brother's glider and that of Chanute and Lilienthal?

10. Who was Icarus?

(see the answer keys)

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