AMELIA EARHART

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Amelia Earhart (listening)

1. What was Amelia interested in as a child?
a. engineering
b. successful women
c. planes
2. When did Amelia's life change?
a. When she flew in a plane
b. When she worked in a hospital
c. When she started university
3. When did Amelia break her first record?
a. 1922
b. 1928
c. 1932
4. Who piloted the plane that crossed the Atlantic in 1928?
a. Amelia Earhart
b. George Putnam
c. Wilmer Stultz
5. What was important about Amelia's 1932 solo Atlantic crossing?
a. She was the first person to do it
b. She was the first woman to do it
c. She landed in Ireland
6. What happened in 1937?
a. Amelia flew around the world
b. Amelia disappeared
c. Amelia's plane crashed on Howland Island
7. What did the rescue search find?
a. nothing
b. the plane
c. Amelia's body