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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. How long after the first trial did the second trial take place?

2. What did the Wright brothers build to test wings?

3. Where was the new motorized glider assembled?

4. How did the Wright brothers contact their family member at the end of Chapter 6?

5. What was the contract between the U.S. Signal Corp and the Wright brothers for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Katherine write to her father?

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

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

4. What did Wilbur and Orville do with success?

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

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

7. What did the brothers continue to do?

8. What did the Wright Brothers know about a motor in Chapter 6?

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

10. What made Wilbur an international celebrity?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the role that Octave Chanute had in the success of the Wright brothers.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Compare the aircraft developed by the Wright brothers with that made today.

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