Fly Girl Quiz- May Scope 2019

If you were to rearrange the scenes so that the events were in chronological order, what change would you make?

• move Scene 1 so that it follows Scene 8

• move Scene 1 so that it follows Scene 7

• move Scene 8 so that it follows Scene 1

• move Scene 2 so that it follows Scene 6

At the beginning of the play, why doesn’t Margie’s dad want her to become a WASP?

• He doesn’t think women should fly airplanes.

• He thinks she is too young and should wait a few years before becoming a pilot.

• He is worried that she will be killed in a plane crash, as his sister was.

• He doesn’t want her to leave home.

Which lines help you understand that women pilots faced discrimination during World War II? Choose TWO answers.

• Jackie Cochran: This six-month training program is rigorous.

• Instructor: Sure you can handle it, little lady?

• Margie: Did you hear that rotten captain? He said women pilots are as expendable as the planes.

• General Arnold: The WASPs are doing vital jobs.

The photo caption on page 14 states that more than 25,000 women applied to the WASP training program, fewer than 2,000 were accepted, and only 1,074 made it through the training.

Which line from the play illustrates a similar idea?

• Jackie Cochran: This six-month training program is rigorous. Many of you will wash out.

• Cochran: Now, there are men out there who think you can’t do it.

• Margie: The Army never expected women to be flying their planes.

• Margie: That’s not going to happen to us, is it?

In Scene 7, Margie and Nell discuss an accident at Camp Davis. The playwright likely included this dialogue to help develop the idea that-

• Camp Davis was less safe than Love Field.

• Margie was having doubts about being a WASP.

• Nell had more experience than Margie.

• being a WASP involved risk.

How is the conflict between Margie and her dad resolved at the end of the play?

• Margie apologizes and agrees to quit the WASPs.

• They agree not to talk about the WASPs again.

• Margie convinces her dad that being a WASP is not as dangerous as he thinks.

• Margie’s dad is proud of her and decides to support her choice to be a WASP.

Aunt Margaret is not a character in the play, but she is an important part of the story. Which of the following best explains why?

• Her legacy influences the actions and decisions of other characters.

• She appears in every scene of the play.

• She is mentioned only once without any significance.

• She is a symbolic representation of the protagonist.