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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 happened on May 14, 1908?
(a) The Wright brothers flew a 20-man plane.
(b) The Wright brothers flew a 2-man plane.
(c) The Wright brothers flew a 4-man plane.
(d) The Wright brothers flew a 10-man plane.

2. What was the contract between the U.S. Signal Corp and the Wright brothers for?
(a) A 10-man plane.
(b) A 4-man plane.
(c) A 2-man plane.
(d) A 20-man plane.

3. What did the Wright brothers realize concerning the data they had in Chapter 5?
(a) It was old data.
(b) It was unreliable.
(c) It was reliable.
(d) It was very recent.

4. What did people around Huffman Prairie begin to take notice of in late 1905?
(a) Military officials coming and going.
(b) Flying saucers.
(c) Large planes flying overhead.
(d) Strange accidents.

5. When did Wilbur have his first turn with the new flyer?
(a) September 20th.
(b) September 15th.
(c) September 25th.
(d) September 30th.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Wright brothers do when they returned home?

2. What was the wing span of the Wright brothers' largest glider after running their wing experiments?

3. What did the Wright brothers know they wouldn't do at the start of Chapter 6?

4. When did Orville returned to Kill Devil Hills?

5. What does Bishop Wright compare his inseparable sons to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Orville figure out while lying in bed one night?

2. Why did the U.S. War Department turn the Wrights down?

3. What did the Wright brothers write at the start of Chapter 7?

4. What did the Wright brothers make history with in May 1908?

5. What did Wilbur and Orville do with success?

6. What did the Wright brothers realize upon their return to Ohio in Chapter 5?

7. What did the Wright brothers work on in the spring of 1904?

8. What were the dimensions on the largest glider?

9. What did the brothers build to test different types of wing surfaces?

10. What was the Wright Flyer III declared?

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