Ready for Liftoff!

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What best describes what a telescope allowed Goddard to do?

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see far

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What does the word "breathlessly" most likely mean based on its parts (breath-, -less, -ly)?

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done while holding your breath

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What is the meaning of combustion in the context of the sentence: "In a liquid-fueled rocket, two liquids mix and start a fire in a small combustion chamber."?

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staring a fire

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Which sentence best states the central idea of the passage?

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Goddard's experiments were important to the future of modern rocket science.

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What is the meaning of malfunctioned as it is used in the sentence: "They often wrote about the disastrous ones that malfunctioned."?

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failed to work the correct way

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Which sentence from paragraphs 5-6 support the idea that not many people believed in Goddard's work?

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" Many people thought his work and interest in space travel were nonsense."

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Which sentence summarizes the passage? Options: Nobody believed in Robert Goddard and he did not want to finish his work on his rocket. Robert Goddard always loved space which lead him to work hard building rockets and becoming the "Father of Modern Rocketry." Robert Goddard built rockets with liquid fuel that were able to lift off 41 feet in the air. Newspapers would not print good stories about Goddard which led to Charles Lindbergh giving him money to work on his rockets.

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Robert Goddard always loved space which lead him to work hard building rockets and becoming the "Father of Modern Rocketry."