Young Thomas Edison

What is this story mostly about?

• The light bulb
• A former teacher
• A young inventor
• The first telegraph

Why did Edison’s mother take him out of school?

• He hated school.
• She wanted him to get a job.
• He was sick with scarlet fever.
• She wanted to teach him at home.

How can the reader tell that Edison loved to read?

• He was often daydreaming.
• He spent all day at the library.
• He studied the great inventors.
• He got a job selling newspapers.

Why did Edison lose his job at the railroad office?

• He was sleeping at work.
• He set up a lab in the station.
• He started a fire in the building.
• He spent his work hours reading.

What happened right after Edison lost his job at the railroad station?

• He invented the light bulb.
• He set up a lab in New Jersey.
• He made money selling newspapers.
• He traveled around working as a telegraph operator.

Why did people start to call Edison “The Wizard”?

• He hired lots of people.
• He made many inventions.
• He always asked questions.
• He blew up a large number of things.

Where was Edison’s first laboratory?

• in his house

• at his school

• In New Jersey

• at a railroad office

What happened when Edison got scarlet fever?

• He began reading books.

• He lost some of his hearing.

• He stopped asking questions.

• He started doing experiments.

What was Edison's FIRST job?

• inventor

• railroad worker

• paper boy

• telegraph operator

You need to plug in the lamp because it runs on ______ power.

• gas
• water
• electric
• muscle