The Woman Who Chased the Horizon: teacher key

Amelia Earhart, grade 12 edition, written for 12th grade and up. Amelia Earhart paid for her own flying lessons, set records over land and sea, and then tried to fly around the world. The radio log and the search show what is known and what is not.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. How did she pay for her flying lessons?
   • She worked as a telephone company clerk and a photographer (answer)
   • She won a race
   • She sold a Vega
2. Which of her planes was called the Little Red Bus?
   • The Electra
   • Her bright red Vega (answer)
   • The Friendship
3. Why did her 1932 flight count as a first even though Paris was the aim?
   • It was the first solo transatlantic flight by a woman (answer)
   • It reached London
   • It had a navigator
4. What did the Itasca's log record as the last communication from KHAQQ?
   • About 8:43 a.m. on July 2, 1937 (answer)
   • 7 p.m. on July 1, 1937
   • June 1, 1937
5. What does the Itasca's log show about the radio signals?
   • They were sporadic and broken (answer)
   • They were loud and clear
   • They were never sent
6. What is known as of November 2026 about what happened to Earhart and Noonan?
   • It remains unknown, with no proof of their fate (answer)
   • It was settled in 1937
   • It is known from the Electra

Words

• exhibition: a show
• autogiro: rotor aircraft
• altimeter: height gauge
• circumnavigate: go around
• transatlantic: across the Atlantic