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

2. Who did Wilbur and Orville contact after their successful flight?
(a) Their father.
(b) Thir agent.
(c) Their sister.
(d) Their mother.

3. What did the Wright brothers do when they returned home?
(a) Took a picture of them in flight.
(b) Contacted the war department.
(c) Built another flyer.
(d) Wrote a press release.

4. What did Bishop Wright compare his sons' reading habits to?
(a) A librerian.
(b) A mechanic.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A physician.

5. Who was offered the right to the Wrights' plane first?
(a) The Pony Express.
(b) The U.S. Post Office.
(c) Federal Express.
(d) The U.S. War Department.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Orville returned to Kill Devil Hills?

2. Why were the customers of the bike shop forced to wait outside the shop?

3. When was the Flyer III built?

4. How many manufacturers were able to provide an engine to the Wright's specifications?

5. What did the Wright brothers decide to do about the data concerning flight?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened on November 9?

2. What problems did the brothers encounter?

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

4. What did Katherine write to her father?

5. What record did Wilbur set on October 5, 1905?

6. What were the dimensions on the largest glider?

7. What happened for the next two and a half years according to Chapter 8?

8. What happened for the first time at the end of May?

9. What did Wilbur and Orville decide to build themselves?

10. What did the brothers continue to do?

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