□ a climbed trees, collected bugs, hunted rats and explored the neighborhood had nothing to do with her decision
□ b saw her first plane at the Iowa State Fair not impressed at all in 1908
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Do you know any pioneers of flight?
Jerrie Mock, (Geraldine Lois Fredritz), American aviator (born Nov. 22, 1925, Newark, Ohio—died Sept. 30, 2014, Quincy, Fla.), was an unassuming housewife who in 1964 became the first woman to fly solo around the world, a feat never achieved by the more celebrated aviator Amelia Earhart.
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□ ✔ e visited her sister in Toronto and admired wounded
soldiers While working there, she got to know many of the wounded pilots and grew to admire them.
□ c graduatedicago
✔□ d attended an air show with her dad in Long