Lesson 19 Storytown

How do you know that "inventing the Future" is a biography?

• the characters' actions and feelings are shown through dialogue

• the reader is challenged to find an answer to a problem

• information si given about whey a person is important

• information is divided into sections with headings

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Which detail BEST shows that Edison liked inventing, even as a child?

• he often used to daydream during his classes

• he used a picture as a guide to build hi sown telegraph set

• he practiced sending coded messages to and from a friend

• he began selling newspapers on the Grand Trunk Railway

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It is MOST LIKELY that Edison made his inventions in order to

• satisfy his curiousity

• become wealthy

• make friends

• gain fame

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The author included photographs of Edison and his family MAINLY to

• help readers understand more about the inventor

• illustrate the clothing people wore in the 1800s

• show what an inventor usually looks like

• contrast life of long ago with life today

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As a boy, Eidson like to perform the experiments he read about in his textbook MAINLY because he wanted to

• invent electrical instruments

• see if the facts were accurate

• mix chemicals and acids

• learn how things worked

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The author tells that Edison bought 1,000 newspapers describign the battle at Shiloh MAINLY to show that Edison

• was quick to see opportunities

• lived during exciting times

• could make money easily

• cared about other people

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What is the MOST LIKELY reason Edison watned to learn to be a telegraph operator?

• his work on trains had become boring

• he planned to invent a similar machine

• he knew he could get a job almost anywhere

• he hoped to teach others to translate messages

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Why did Edison often lose his job as a "tramp telegrapher"?

• he took too many catnaps during the day

• he liked experimenting more than working

• he wrote too slowly to record the messages

• he was unanble to keep the equipment working

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On the first warm spring day, Chris felt an __________urge to go outside

• irrepressible

• extravagant

• intricate

• industrious

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To sail all the way around the world is a difficult______________.

• industry

• phobia

• feat

• device

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