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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 start to devise a way to do at the end of Chapter 5?

2. What did people around Huffman Prairie begin to take notice of in late 1905?

3. Who did Wilbur and Orville contact after their successful flight?

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

5. Where was the new motorized glider assembled?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was clear about the Wright Flyer being considered a practical airplane?

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

3. Where did the brothers arrive in Kill Devil Hills in September 1903?

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

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

6. What did the brothers continue to do?

7. What was the Wright Flyer III declared?

8. What happened on November 9?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Examine the influence that media had on the development of aviation and how it was both beneficial and detriment

Essay Topic 3

Examine the role that observation and research played in the development of the Wright brothers' aircraft.

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