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Then, follow the directions to answer each question. Circle the answer or answers you have chosen in your test book. If you need to change an answer, be sure to erase your first answer completely.  \nIf you do not know the answer to a question, you may go on to the next question. If you finish early, you may review your answers and any questions you did not answer in this Section ONLY. Do not go past the stop sign.  \nSection 1  \n3  \nSection 1  \nIn this passage, you will learn the true story of how two young brothers, Joseph and Étienne Montgolfier of France, became inventors of hot-air balloon flight in  \n1783. Read the passage. Then answer the questions.  \nFlying Balloons: The Story of the Montgolfier Brothers  \nby Joseph Taylor  \n1 Greek, Latin, and theology were the subjects taught in his school, but it was science and mathematics that interested Joseph Montgolfier. As often as he could, he would steal time from his studies to escape outdoors, where he could let his mind wander and ponder nature .  \n2 One day, he found himself considering the possibility of flight. Though many had tried, no human had ever flown before . Most people thought it impossible. One noted scientist put it bluntly: “It has been proved that we human beings are incapable of rising from the ground and soaring in the air. Why waste time on attempts at changing nature’s basic laws?”  \n3 Joseph had other ideas. He saw that many things in nature—bubbles, steam, clouds—did rise.“Surely, a human could lift off the ground and fly, too,” he told his brother Étienne.  \n4 Étienne nodded his agreement.“But how?”  \n5 Joseph grew so frustrated with his formal studies and his father’s rigid ways that he left school. He found a job picking mulberry leaves on a farm that raised silkworms. It wasn’t exactly the life of a prosperous merchant’s son, and his father soon had him returned to school. Joseph only grew more determined to study science and mathematics.  \n6 Meanwhile, Étienne excelled in school, much to his father’s delight. When he grew up, he became an architect, then, when his father retired, manager of the family business.  \n7 Joseph, though, stumbled from one failed career endeavor to the next. Although he devised new kinds of paper and manufacturing techniques, most of the family was dismissive of his attempts at papermaking. Meanwhile, Joseph’s dream offlight remained just a dream . Perhaps, he started to think, it always would.  \n8 Then one dreary November day in 1782, as forty-two-year-old Joseph warmed himself beside the fire in his apartment in Avignon, an idea came to him. He noticed how quickly the smoke rose up the chimney. Could it be, he wondered, that something could float up with it?  \n4   \n9 He glued together a few pieces of paper to make a small bag, then carefully held it upside down above the flame. When he released it, the bag flew up the chimney with the smoke .  \n10 His heart racing, Joseph borrowed some green silk taffeta from his landlady and sewed a larger bag using the dress material. When he filled the bag with smoke, he could hardly believe his eyes . It lifted out of his hands and rose up to the ceiling.  \n11 After sending a hurried note to Étienne, Joseph made for Annonay to show his younger brother his discovery.“It’s incredible!” Étienne agreed.  \n12 The brothers quickly set to work experimenting. For months they tested many different bags—small and large, paper and cloth, square and round, some inflated over a smoky fire on the ground, others carrying kettles of fire up with them. Finally, they designed a large, round bag constructed of layers of paper and cloth that did not carry a kettle. 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