Comprehension check

Read the test and fill in the QUICK FACTS chart.
Full name
Date of birth (dd/mm/yyyy)
Place of birth (city)
Father’s name
Mother’s name
Nationality
Higher education (the name of establishment)
Further education
Area of work
Citizenship after war
Date of death (dd/mm/yyyy)
Place of death (city)
    
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Read the text again and choose the correct answer.
1)What is von Braun’s main contribution?

2)How did he get interested in rocketry?

3)What periods can his work be divided into?

4)What did he do while he was working for the Nazi?

5)What was von Braun’s main ambition in life?

6)Why was von Braun arrested by the SS and the Gestapo?

7)What was von Braun’s main reason for the surrender to the Americans?

8)What was his major contribution during his career in the USA?

9)What was his dream of the future space exploration?

10)Why is the text entitled "Crusader for Space Travel"?

    
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Write the dates from the text next to each event.
a)
Wernher von Braun was born in Wyrzysk, Wielkopolska in   .
b)
He got interested in space exploration in   .
c)
He conducted his first rocket test in   .
d)
He entered the higher educational establishment in   .
e)
He began to develop the military weapons for the Nazi in   .
f)
He decided to pursue his education and enrolled at the Friedrich-Wilhelm University in   .
g)
He was awarded the PhD in physics in   .
h)
He was conducting successful tests of liquid-fueled engines from     to  .
i)
He started to work at "vengeance weapon" in   .
j)
He surrendered to the Americans in   .
k)
He worked with the U.S. Army in the development of ballistic missiles from     to  .
l)
He built the Army’s Jupiter ballistic missile in   .
m)
He developed the rocket which successfully launched the West's first satellite, Explorer 1 in   .
n)
He became the director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in   .
o)
His Saturn V launch vehicle propelled the Americans to the Moon in   .
p)
He headed up the strategic planning effort for NASA in Washington D.C. in   .
q)
He retired from NASA to work for Fairchild Industries of Germantown, Md. in   .
r)
He died in   .
    
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