So You Want to be an Inventor?

What is the genre of So You Want to be an Inventor?

• fantasy

• realistic fiction

• narrative nonfiction

• historical fiction

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Why did the author write So You Want to be an Inventor?

• to inform you about airplanes

• to entertain you with a funny story about Ben Franklin

• to persuade you that the light bulb is the greatest invention

• to inform you about inventors and what they invented

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Who invented the lightbulb?

• Ben Franklin

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Nikola Tesla

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Is the phrase "stubborn as a bulldog" a simile or metaphor?

• simile

• metaphor

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Who created the first airplane?

• Thomas Jefferson and George Washington

• Binney and Smith

• Wilbur and Orville Wright

• Thomas Edison and Ben Franklin

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What does the word "tinker" mean?

• things that get in the way of your success

• to play around with the parts of something to try to fix it

• to make something the best that it can be

• to walk all over something

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What is a barrier ?

• a motor with alternating current

• a long fiber used for lighting light bulbs

• a person who plays jokes or pranks on people

• something that stops you or gets in the way of your success

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Who invented the moving assembly line?

• Elijah McCoy

• Henry Winkler

• Thomas Edison

• Henry Ford

What does it mean to "perfect" something?

• to repair something

• to inspect it to find defects

• to work on something until it is as good as it can possibly be

• to create a brand new invention

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How did de Mestral get the idea for Velcro?

• He noticed the cockleburs stuck to his pants.

• He stole the idea from another inventor.

• He had been working on creating a fastener in the lab.

• He hated buttons and wanted to come up with another type of fastener.

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