WorksheetsThe Inventor's Secret
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 7mins
What word could be used to describe Edison and Ford?
curious
angry
happy
dishonest
Thomas was most curious about (a)
Henry was most curious about (a)
What was special about Thomas's pen?
It was filled with invisible ink.
In one day people could print a pile of copies that would've taken weeks to write by hand.
It could illuminate when it wrote things.
What did Henry dream about?
Henry dreamt about building a car hardworking families could afford.
How were Henry and Thomas alike?
They both were inventors who faced challenges, and their experiments were sometimes a disaster.
Can you match the vocabulary word with the definition?
locomotive
engines that make a train go forward
chugged
moving slowly and noisily
gadgets
small specialized machines or devices
incandescent
gives off a lot of light
patents
legal documents for inventions
Which statement best describes the relationship between Henry and Thomas in the passage?
Henry was more successful than Thomas.
Thomas and Henry were trying to invent the same thing.
Henry admired Thomas and his inventions.
Thomas was smarter than Henry.
He was so fascinated with it that he created a model of the engine to see how it worked. What does the word fascinated mean as it is used in this sentence?
troubled
confused
surprised
interested
What was Thomas's secret?
When things got tough, he quit.
He believed people who said his ideas were a joke.
He refused to give up and just kept working.
He preferred to do chores rather than work on his experiments.
