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7. A reader of the article could determine that
a. the Chinese are generally regarded to have been the first to use rockets in

rituals and war
b. Europeans received the rocket technology from the Chinese
c. gunpowder was first found in China
d. Chinese are better soldiers than Mongols

8. Which of these states an opinion?
a. The earliest known record of the use of real rockets was in the war between
the Chinese and Mongols in 1232.
b. At the battle of Kai-Keng, the Chinese fired a barrage of flaming rockets to

the invading Mongol horsemen.
c. The Europeans’ rockets were more advanced than the Chinese’s rockets.
d. The Mongols eventually made their own rockets.

9. The article was created mainly to
a. inform the reader about the Chinese inventions
b. inform the reader about the battle of Kai-Keng

c. inform the reader about the modern rocket technology
d. inform the reader about how the rockets were first made

10. The words the true rocket describe

a. a real rocket b. a first rocket
c. a working rocket d. none of the above

True or False

Check “T” for true and “F” for false.

a. Today’s rockets are the products of thousands of T F
years of experimentation inspired by human
ingenuity.
b. The Chinese filled bamboo tubes with a simple form T F
of gunpowder made from saltpeter, sulfur, and

charcoal dust.
c. “Chinese arrows” are the first known solid-propellant T F
rockets and were made from a tube filled with

uranium, capped at one end while the other end was
left open and the tube attached to a long stick.
d. The fire-arrows drastically terrified the Europeans. T F

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