4th Grade My Brothers' Flying Machine & Vocab Test

Which was the biggest problem Orville had on the first flight?

• getting witnesses

• talking to Wilbur

• controlling the machine

• moving the machine onto the track

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Which sentence from the diary best supports what was the biggest problem Orville had on the first flight?

• I found the control of the front rudder quite difficult on account of it being balanced too near the center and thus had a tendency to turn itself [when] started so that the rudder was turned too far on one side and then too far on the other.

• The lever for throwing off the engine was broken, and the skid under the rudder cracked.

• While out about the same distance as Will’s, I met with a strong gust from the left which raised the left wing and sidled the machine off to the right in a lively manner.

• The jar of landing had set the watch on machine back so that we have no exact record for the 1071 turns.

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In addition to the diary, what other proof do we have of the first flight?

• video

• voice recordings

• a collection of paintings

• photographs taken that day

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Who built the engine for the first flying machine?

• Orville Wright

• Charlie Taylor

• Wilbur Wright

• Neither the poem nor the diary give this information.

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According to Orville’s diary, how far was the first flight?

• 100 feet

• 175 feet

• 12–14 feet

• between 20 and 25 miles

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The poem says the Wright brothers signaled for witnesses. Why did they do this?

• to be sure no one got hurt

• to attach the motor to the plane

• to prove they really flew

• to get help moving the machine

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Complete this sentence from the selection.

With the aid of the station men present, we picked the up the _______

and carried it back to the starting ways.

• machine

• kite

• cat

• diary

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Why was the flying machine described as a bat in the poem?

• Airplanes hadn't been invented yet so they couldn't use that name.

• The flying machine looked more like a bird than a bat.

• They called it an airplane.

• It looked like a hot air balloon.

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Why weren’t Reuchlin and Lorin interested in the flying machine?

• They were younger and didn't understand what they were doing.

• They were interested in other things.

• They were older and thought it was a childish toy.

• They were actually very interested in the flying machine.

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Why did the Wright brothers have to repair the flying machine?

• The first few flights ended in a crash so minor repairs had to be made.

• They never repaired the flying machine.

• Every flight was successful.

• Someone kept breaking the flying machine before flights.

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