Edison's Best Invention Comprehension Test

This selection is:

• realistic fiction

• an autobiography

• historical fiction

• an opinion text

The text refers to Edison as a visionary. A visionary is:

• someone who is invisible

• someone who is an inventor

• someone who has new ideas about the future

• someone with good eyesight

According to the author, the light bulb:

• inspired the most inventions

• only helped rich people

• didn't really change the way we live

• was the second most important invention

What was the first motion picture camera?

• kinetofilm

• kinetocamera

• kinetoscope

• kinetograph

The phonograph led to the inventions of all of these except the:

• talking doll

• dictation machine

• camera

• jukebox

If speeches are memorable, they must be:

• easily forgotten

• special enough for people to remember them

• very long

• extremely exciting

According to the author, what is the most important of Edison’s inventions?

• light bulb

• phonograph

• kinetograph

• kinetoscope

Where was Edison’s first light and power system?

• Diamond Street in Boston

• Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

• Pearl Street in New York City

• Ruby Lane in New Orleans

How were the streets of big cities lit before the invention of the light bulb?

• they weren’t lit at all

• flashlights

• candles

• gas lights

What did Edison use to name many of his inventions?

• Spanish names

• rhyming words

• Latin words

• Greek roots