NAME: _____________________________
BIG QUIZ -- LESSON 3-1 AND 3-2
Choose the BEST answer to each question.
1. What do historians call the aviation years between 1919 and 1939?
a.
b.
c.
d.
The “new age of aviation.”
The “golden age of aviation.”
The “great depression of aviation.”
The “barnstorming era of aviation.”
2. What happened to aircraft production in the U.S. after World War I?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Boomed
Remained steady
Dropped by 85 percent
Saw an increase in commercial investment
3. What do historians give barnstormers credit for?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Preparing for World War II
Establishing the precursor to the modern circus
Sustaining the aviation industry during its early years
Entertaining many Americans during the Great Depression
4. How did barnstorming impact “average” Americans?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Demonstrated that flying was very safe
Horrific accidents made most Americans afraid of flying
Raised public awareness of aviation and hinted at the promise of the future
Was nothing new since most Americans had already seen airplanes in action
5. What was the background of many of the barnstormers?
a. farmers
b. mechanics
c. army pilots
d. racecar drivers
6. Which famous aviator was a barnstormer at the beginning of his/her career?
a. Billy Mitchell
b. Amelia Earhart
c. Jimmy Doolittle
d. Charles Lindbergh
7. What became more reliable during the barnstorming era?
a. aircraft engines
b. commercial airlines
c. air traffic control centers
d. government’s funding for aviation
8. Who began to offer prizes for the first pilot to achieve a certain goal?
a.
b.
c.
d.
The U.S. Congress
colleges and universities
wealthy aviation enthusiasts
The Wright Brothers Foundation
9. What goal did Calbraith Perry Rodgers attempt so he could win $50,000?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Flying solo across the Pacific Ocean
Flying nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean
Flying across the United States in 30 days or less
Flying from New York City to Miami in record time
10. Who did Orville Wright call “the greatest pilot of all time”?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Glenn Curtiss
Bessie Coleman
Lincoln Beachey
Charles Lindbergh
11. Which female barnstormer ran her own flying circus?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Margery Brown
Harriet Quimby
Bessie Coleman
Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie
12. _________________ advanced both aviation and polar exploration.
a. Richard Byrd
b. Amelia Earhart
c. Anthony Fokker
d. Charles Lindbergh
13. What is the term for something designed with rounded edges to reduce wind drag?
a. aerial
b. aerodynamic
c. drag resistant
d. center of pressure
14. What do people today use the word milestone to describe?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Mile markers in a race
A precious kind of stone
Breaking a record in a race
An important event or breakthrough
15. Where was Charles Lindbergh’s plane built?
a.
b.
Chicago
St Louis
c. San Diego
d. New York
16. Which famous aviator was first a passenger on a transatlantic flight?
a.
b.
Amelia Earhart
Charles Lindbergh
c. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
d. 1st Lt James Harold Doolittle
17. In aviation lingo, a/an _____________ is a route that passes through one or more points and
then returns to the starting point?
a. circuit
b. waypoint
c. aerial track
d. aerial pathway
18. When Amelia Earhart disappeared in the Pacific Ocean on her longest leg of her around-theworld flight, she took off from ______________ enroute to Howland Island.
a. Hawaii
b. New Guinea
c. Japan
d. The Phillipines
19. 1st Lt James Harold Doolittle was the first to achieve __________________ flight.
a. blind
b. transpacific
c. transatlantic
d. transcontinental
20. What is spatial disorientation?
a.
b.
c.
d.
A condition in which a person is mentally ill
A condition in which a person’s vision cannot accurately estimate size
A condition in which a person’s sense of direction does not agree with reality
A condition in which a person is confused and unable to focus or see the horizon
21. Before the development of cockpit instruments, pilots used the __________________ to
orient themselves in flight.
a. sun
b. ground
c. equator
d. horizon
22. What did Sgt William C. Ocker invent to help him stay oriented while flying?
a. special glasses
b. aviation compass
c. turn-and-bank indicator
d. air traffic control system
23. Which famous airplane demonstrated the practicality of in-flight refueling?
a.
b.
The Autogiro
The Friendship
c. The Question Mark
d. The Spirit of St. Louis
24. A/An ________________ was an early, helicopter-like aircraft.
a. autogiro
b. heliplane
c. aerial screw
d. rotor-machine
25. Maj Carl Spaatz set an endurance record by staying aloft for _________________ days.
a. 1
b. 3
c. 6
d. 10
26. When did the Post Office Department start the first airmail service?
a. 1914
b. 1917
c. 1918
d. 1926
27. In a two-year period after the beginning of Airmail Service from New York to Chicago, there
were 23 pilot deaths. The Airmail Service became known as the ________________ Club.
a. Suicide
b. Pony Express
c. Courage
d. Dead End
28. The first transcontinental airmail service in Feb 1921 went from ___________ to Chicago.
a. New York
b. Philadelphia
c. San Francisco
d. Washington DC
29. In addition to mail, what did new aviation companies begin to carry for the first time
in 1925?
a. food
b. passengers
c. human organs
d. military and civilian cargo
30. By the 1930s, the government began to have the major passenger airlines deliver mail in
addition to passengers. Which of the following was not one of the major airlines durikng
this period?
a. United
b. Eastern
c. Trans World
d. Virgin Atlantic