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A Comprehension
A1. Choose the correct answer.
1. Little Al was not allowed to go to school for some years because of
a) his large head. b) his addled brain. c) poor health.
2. Where did Edison’s father find him after he went missing one day?
a) in a train compartment
b) in the barn
c) in the cellar laboratory
3. Where was Edison living when he became a newsboy?
a) Port Huron b) Detroit c) New York
4. The phonograph was
a) a type of telephone. b) a camera. c) a sound recorder.
A2. Sequence the events in Edison’s life.
• Edison sets up a factory of inventions.
• Edison tries to hatch eggs by sitting on them.
• Edison’s mother withdraws him from school.
• He sets up a laboratory in the cellar of his home.
• Edison is thrown out of the train.
• Edison learns telegraphy.
A3. Answer these ques ons.
1. Why did Edison’s mother withdraw him from school?
2. What was Edison trying to do sitting in the barn?
3. Why did Edison label the bottles of chemicals ‘Poison’?
4. What was Edison’s reason for choosing to become a newsboy?
5. How did Thomas Edison become deaf?
6. When did Edison say, ‘We will begin rebuilding tomorrow’? What does
this tell us about his nature?
7. How different would your life have been without Edison’s inventions?
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