Bessie Coleman

What does the author believe is most important about Bessie Coleman?

• She was the first African-American female pilot.

• She influenced and inspired other African-American aviators.

• She proved that poor education does not prevent success.

• She fought European prejudice against African Americans.

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Which statement best explains why Bessie Coleman went to Europe?

• She wanted to learn to fly French Nieuport Type 82 biplanes.

• She had met one of the world's top aircraft designers who was German.

• She was rejected by U.S. flight schools because she was black and female.

• She wanted to prove to her brother that French women were no better than American women.

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What can the reader mainly infer about Coleman from the following passage (paragraph 15)?

• She lessened discrimination against African Americans.

• She had always craved attention.

• She was widely popular in America.

• She was practically unknown in her homeland.

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Which sentence best summarizes the following passage (paragraph 16)?

In the years following her death, Bessie Coleman aero clubs would spring up throughout the country and on Labor Day in 1931, these clubs sponsored the first all-African-American Air Show, attracting more than 15,000 spectators. That same year, a group of African-American pilots established a fly-over of her gravesite, and her name began appearing on buildings in the Harlem are of New York City.

• The African-American community honored Coleman in many ways after her death.

• White and black Americans respected Coleman to the same degree.

• People began to lose interest in Coleman after her death.

• Coleman was the best female pilot to ever fly.

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Which inference about Coleman is best supported by the passage below (paragraphs 10-11)?

In February of 1922, Coleman appeared in her first American airshow, an event honoring veterans of the all black 369th Infantry Regiment of World War I. The show, held at Curtiss Field on Long Island, N.Y., billed Coleman as "the world's greatest woman flier," and featured aerial displays by some of America's top ace pilots of the first world war.

Soon after her New York performance, she returned to Chicago where she dazzled huge crowds with daredevil maneuvers that included figure eights, loops and near-ground dips at the Checkboard Airdome, now Midway Airport.

• She loved the excitement of traveling.

• She was a very skillful pilot.

• She was a better pilot than some ace pilots of World War I.

• She was not treated as she deserved in America.

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Which meaning of media most closely matches its meaning in the following excerpt (paragraph 9)?

• Noun-Material an artist uses to create with, such as oil, paint or bronze.

• Noun-Material in which something is grown authentically.

• Adjective-Relating to channels of mass communication, such as newspapers and television.

• Adjective-Relating to data storage devices such as CD's, DVD's, and disk drives.

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