Alexander Graham Bell: How One Life Changed the World

Questions

1. Sequence Which of these happened first?

   Bell helped start the National Geographic Society Bell moved with his parents to Canada Bell received a patent for the telephone Bell was made a member of a British society of arts
2. Sequence Which of these happened last?

   Bell received a patent for the telephone Bell began teaching deaf students in Boston Bell helped start the National Geographic Society Bell moved with his parents to Canada
3. Details In what year did this happen? "Bell began teaching deaf students in Boston."

   1870 1881 1871 1888
4. Timeline math How many years passed between these two events? First: "Bell received a patent for the telephone." Later: "He helped start the National Geographic Society."

   13 12 41 11
5. Timeline math About how old was Bell in 1888?

   36 46 41 53
6. Vocabulary In the passage, what does "patent" mean?

   the wearing away of soil or rock by wind or water a legal document that says an invention belongs to the person who made it a kind of invisible light that can pass through the body to make pictures of bones the force that pulls objects toward each other
7. Character traits Which word best describes Alexander Graham Bell?

   lazy bored unkind dedicated
8. Evidence Which detail from the passage shows that Bell was dedicated?

   He learned advanced mathematics largely on his own, working through a borrowed book of formulas. He tested every idea with experiments, even when the results surprised everyone. His mother and wife were deaf, and he spent his life studying sound and teaching deaf students. He wondered how doctors could see inside the body in slices, not just in flat X-rays.
9. Main idea What is this passage mostly about?

   the life and work of Ada Lovelace the life and work of Alexander Graham Bell the life and work of Katherine Johnson the life and work of Jane Goodall
10. Text structure How does the author organize the middle of the passage?

    from most important to least important event as a list of steps to follow as a problem and its solution in time order, from earlier events to later ones
11. Author's purpose Why does the author end with the final paragraph?

    to describe where the person grew up to explain how to do an experiment to show that his work still matters today to tell a funny story

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