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In June 1937, Earhart departed on her final journey. It was her second attempt to fly across the globe. Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan left Miami on June 1 and after making stops in South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia, they arrived at Lae, New Guinea, which meant most of the journey had been completed. However, something went terribly wrong when they were flying from Lae Airfield to Howland Island, a small island used as a military landing strip. Even though Noonan was thought to be one of the world's top navigators, their Pacific flight route course was not precise. They were unable to find the island or any other stretch of land, and the more lost they would get, the harder it became to maintain communication through the radio signals. Amelia reportedly circled about and looked for the landing strip, without success. In one of the last radio messages to Howard Island, Amelia indicated they were running out of fuel. Believing her plane went down, the American government spent millions of dollars in an attempt to rescue their beloved Amelia and her navigator Noonan, to no avail. Earhart was legally declared dead in 1939. While many a biography of Amelia Earhart has been written, none can quite ascertain what really happened on the day of her disappearance. Throughout the years, many theories and legends have sprung up. Some speculate that she landed safely and wanted to give up flying, she assumed another identity and lived out the rest of her life in peace. Others go as far as suggesting she was abducted by Japanese soldiers or even by aliens. No matter what happened, her name lives on as an example to pilots and women everywhere about how far inspiration and believing in oneself can take you. 1. Which of these is NOT one of the reasons why 4. The information that Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart became famous? circled about and looked for the landing strip without success in paragraph 5 a. She was amongst the first women to become airplane pilots. a. cannot be entirely trusted. b. She mysteriously disappeared during her b. is a lie. last flight. is accurate. C. She was the first woman to circumnavigate d. was witnessed by the control tower. the globe. d. She flew across the Atlantic. 5. Where did Amelia Earhart disappear? 2. According to the author, what drove Amelia a. In the US. Earhart to become a pilot? b. In the Bermuda Triangle. Somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. a. Her sense of adventure. d. A few miles off Lae Airfield. b. She met Frank Hawks. She had a life changing experience. 6. In paragraph 6, the author defines d. She wanted to be the first woman to fly Amelia Earhart as across the Atlantic. a. someone difficult to explain. 3. What is true about Amelia's book Last Flight? b. a role model to be followed. a mysterious woman. a. It details her disappearance. d. someone who just wanted to be left b. She made a lot of money with it. alone. She didn't really write it. d. It came out after she had supposedly died.

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