October Sky KS
Unlock all answers in this set
Unlock answersquestion
Cape Coalwood
answer
The Rocket Boys launch site.
question
The Mine/Machine shop.
answer
Homer Hickam Sr's favorite place / where the rockets are built.
question
Dr. Von Braun's home country.
answer
East Germany
question
Cape canaveral
answer
NASA and Dr. Von braun's launch site
question
The Dugout
answer
The high school hang out
question
Big creek high school
answer
Where the Rocket Boys go to school
question
Myrtle beach
answer
Elsie's dream getaway
question
Coalwood
answer
The mining town where the story took place
question
Homer Hickam Jr.
answer
Sonny, the lead of the BCMA
question
Homer Hickam Sr.
answer
Sonny's dad who loves the mine
question
Elsie Hickam
answer
Sonny's mom who was his encouragement
question
Jim Hickam
answer
Sonny's good looking brother
question
Werhner Von Braun
answer
The rocket scientist that inspired sonny
question
Miss Riley
answer
Sonny's favorite chemistry teacher
question
Jake Mosby
answer
Sonny's friend who is a junior engineer/ ladies man
question
Dorothy plunk
answer
Sonny's high school crush
question
Quentin
answer
The little know it all friend of sonny's
question
Mr. Bykovski
answer
The deceased machinist that helped sonny
question
The idea Sonny's mom puts in him
answer
Your not like your father
question
3 conflicts Sonny and Jim have
answer
Sonny in band, the 1st rocket, and football
question
Homer and Elsie fight about...
answer
The mine
question
Sonny's mom wants him to build a rocket.
answer
Because she wants him out of Coalwood
question
Homer creates problems for the football teams
answer
He sues the football commission and loses
question
Quentin agrees to help Sonny
answer
He wants to build rockets and get to the Cape
question
Isaac Bykovski thinks that Sonny should tell his dad
answer
He thinks Homer will be proud
question
Homer takes action after Auk IV lands in Coalwood
answer
Tells Sonny to stop building rockets and moves Mr. Bykovski to the face
question
Homer gives Sonny Cape Coalwood
answer
The reverend's sermon made him change his mind
question
The BCMA needs to solve this problem after Auk V
answer
The powder is too wet
question
Sonny feels like this after going into the mine
answer
Regret because his dad thinks he wants to work in the mine
question
Sonny got this for Christmas
answer
A letter and autographed picture of Wernher Von Braun
question
Ms Riley comes to the BCMA's defense when...
answer
The state troopers think they started a forest fire
question
Sonny can't take calculus
answer
Dorthy got into the class instead of him
question
Sonny enters the science fair
answer
To show up his dad
question
Results of the mine tragedy
answer
Homer was injured and Mr. Bykovski died
question
Quentin's definition of a good rocket
answer
One that does precisely what it's supposed to do
question
The BCMA's financial solution
answer
They dug up cast iron pipes and sold them for scrap iron
question
Sonny meets ______in Welch during his suit shopping trip
answer
John F Kennedy
question
Homer helps Sonny at the National Science fair
answer
He gave into the union so they could build more rockets
question
Homer's reaction to lighting the fuse for the final rocket
answer
Happiness and pain that turn into fear.
question
Homer's dreams for Sonny
answer
He wants him to become a mining engineer
question
AUK
answer
The flightless bird
question
Miss Riley's role in the BCMA
answer
She encouraged them and gave them the rocket book and ideas for fuel
question
Elsie's dreams for Sonny
answer
For him to get out of Coalwood and go to college
question
The items stolen from the National Science Fair
answer
All of Sonny's nozzles,casements, and nose cones
question
What occurred between Dr. Wernher Von Braun
answer
He saw Sonny's nozzles but they never met
question
The members of the BCMA
answer
Sonny, Quentin, O'Dell, Sherman, Roy Lee, Billy
question
Does Homer ever see a rocket launch
answer
Yes
question
Does Sonny ever officially meet Dr. Wernher Von Braun
answer
No
question
\"All I've done is give you a book. You have to have the courage to learn what's in it.\"
answer
Miss Riley
question
\"Just don't blow yourselves up!\"
answer
Elsie Hickam
question
\"Prodigious!\"
answer
Quentin
question
\"Little man, when you grow up, you're going to find out there's a lot of things you're going to do whether you like it or not.\"
answer
Homer Hickam Sr.
question
\"I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard if I had a reason to want to know it.\"
answer
Sonny
question
The men who helped Sonny build his rockets
answer
Mr. Bykovski/ Mr. Caton
question
Coalwood is in what state
answer
West Virginia
question
Sonny's real name
answer
Homer Hickam jr
question
Jim and this person went to the dugout and broke Sonny's heart
answer
Jim and Dorothy plunk
question
Coal miner's Union leader
answer
Mr. Dubonnet
question
Sonny's mom paints on the dining room wall
answer
A mural of the beach at myrtle beach
question
State troopers think the rocket boys did this
answer
Start a forest fire on Davy mountain
question
The driver of a corvette
answer
Jake Mosby
question
Sonny's dream work place
answer
Cape Canveral
question
Sputnik
answer
A Russian satellite
question
The meaning of Auk
answer
It's a extinct flightless bird. It stand for \"even if our rockets don't fly we are still adding to out body of knowledge\"
question
Final member of the BCMA
answer
Billy
question
Who stood up for Sonny when Mr. Fuller tried to shut down the BCMA
answer
Homer Hickam sr
