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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Wright brothers use a tombstone for?

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

3. How long did the press say it would take for men to fly?

4. When did the Wright brothers return to Kitty Hawk next?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Wilbur need to know to find good test locations?

3. Who were Wilbur and Orville Wright?

4. What did Root's piece claim the story he told out-rivaled?

5. Who was Eilmer?

6. Who was Icarus?

7. What did Leonardo da Vinci give thought to?

8. What did Wilbur request from the Smithsonian Institute according to Chapter 4?

9. Why was Root proud?

10. What was the Wright Cycle Company?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the basic requirements that airplanes needed to have based on the Wright brothers' research.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the significance of patent infringement and why the Wright brothers were concerned with rivals.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the impact that Lieutenant Thomas Selfridges' death had on the progress made by the Wright brothers.

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