Questions
1- The best title for the text is ____________________.
a) Modern Uses of Electricity
b) How Electricity Works
c) Where Electricity is Made
d) The History of Electricity
2- The main idea of paragraph 3 is ____________________.
a) electricity comes from the sky
b) an early experiment with electricity
c) that kites can fly in the rain
d) the development of the first battery
3- In paragraph 4, this, refers to ____________________.
a) the creation of the first battery
b) electricity traveling by wire
c) the movement in the dead frog leg
d) the steel knife and the tin plate
4- The Greeks discovered electricity in ________________.
a) 2000 AD
b) 1600 AD
c) 600 BC
d) 350 BC
5- Benjamin Franklin might have died in his experiment because ____________.
a) it was raining and he could have become sick
b) the lightning could have killed him
c) at that time, nobody understood kites
d) a tree could have fallen on him
6- ____________________ discovered that electricity could flow through a wire.
a) Alessandro Volta
b) Luigi Galvani
c) Benjamin Franklin
d) Joseph Swan
7- A unit of electrical potential is known as a ____________.
a) volt
b) volta
c) voltage
d) voltic pile
8- Thomas Edison is famous for creating _______________.
a) the light bulb
b) alternating current
c) the first generator
d) the battery
9- Alternating Current is used in our homes today because DC generated electricity ____________________.
a) acosts too much
b) worked only in New York
c) powered light bulbs
d) were wanted by Edison
10- According to the text, Luigi Galvani ________________.
a) discovered amber attracts metal
b) flew a kite to test for lightning
c) experimented on a dead frog’s leg
d) was the first to explain electricity
Answers:
d. The History of Electricity
b. an early experiment with electricity
a. the creation of the first battery
c. 600 BC
b. the lightning could have killed him
a. Alessandro Volta
a. Volt
c. the first generator
a. costs too much
c. experimented on a dead frog’s leg
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