TEAS 7 Reading Questions with Answers
Passage: Bessie Coleman
Bessie Coleman, the first civilian licensed Black pilot in the world, was born in 1892 to
sharecroppers in Texas, where she attended a segregated school and worked with her family
in the cotton fields. She dreamed of becoming a pilot but no flight schools in America would
accept her, so she moved to France to earn her pilot’s license.
When she returned to the U.S., she wanted to open a flight school for Black students.
She became a stunt flier and performed for paying audiences, which she insisted be
desegregated.Following her death in a plane crash in 1926, the Bessie Coleman Aero Club
was establishedin Los Angeles in 1929. She was inducted into the National Aviation hall of
Fame in 2006.
1. Which of the following sources would be useful for gathering more information
about Bessie Coleman?
i. A documentary film on female pilots in World War 1
ii. A biography of the Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur
iii. The national museum of African American history and culture
iv. A comprehensive history of sharecropping eastern Texas.
, 2. Which of the following statements correctly identifies the sequence of events in
the reading?
i. Born to sharecropper parents, Bessie Coleman moved to France to take flight training
and then returned to the United States as a stunt pilot
ii. After life as a sharecropper, Bessie Coleman raised money as a stunt pilot to attend
flight school in France
iii. Bessie Coleman’s parents were sharecroppers who sent her to France as a child to
become a pilot, after which she returned and opened a flight school
iv. Bessie Coleman was a pilot, then a sharecropper, who lived in France where she was
inducted into the national aviation hall of fame.
3. A parent is researching types of sunscreen to use for his child to wear to swim
lessons.Which of the following resources would be the most reliable for the
parent to consult?
An advertisement for sunscreen in a parenting magazine
A published interview with well-known heart surgeon
A review of sunscreens from a skin cancer research foundation
A recommendation from the child’s swim instructor.
Passage: Bessie Coleman
Bessie Coleman, the first civilian licensed Black pilot in the world, was born in 1892 to
sharecroppers in Texas, where she attended a segregated school and worked with her family
in the cotton fields. She dreamed of becoming a pilot but no flight schools in America would
accept her, so she moved to France to earn her pilot’s license.
When she returned to the U.S., she wanted to open a flight school for Black students.
She became a stunt flier and performed for paying audiences, which she insisted be
desegregated.Following her death in a plane crash in 1926, the Bessie Coleman Aero Club
was establishedin Los Angeles in 1929. She was inducted into the National Aviation hall of
Fame in 2006.
1. Which of the following sources would be useful for gathering more information
about Bessie Coleman?
i. A documentary film on female pilots in World War 1
ii. A biography of the Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur
iii. The national museum of African American history and culture
iv. A comprehensive history of sharecropping eastern Texas.
, 2. Which of the following statements correctly identifies the sequence of events in
the reading?
i. Born to sharecropper parents, Bessie Coleman moved to France to take flight training
and then returned to the United States as a stunt pilot
ii. After life as a sharecropper, Bessie Coleman raised money as a stunt pilot to attend
flight school in France
iii. Bessie Coleman’s parents were sharecroppers who sent her to France as a child to
become a pilot, after which she returned and opened a flight school
iv. Bessie Coleman was a pilot, then a sharecropper, who lived in France where she was
inducted into the national aviation hall of fame.
3. A parent is researching types of sunscreen to use for his child to wear to swim
lessons.Which of the following resources would be the most reliable for the
parent to consult?
An advertisement for sunscreen in a parenting magazine
A published interview with well-known heart surgeon
A review of sunscreens from a skin cancer research foundation
A recommendation from the child’s swim instructor.
