2. What does the author describe in the passage?
i) How Bell's father overcame his difficulties.
ii) Why Bell chose to tutor deaf students. iii) How Bell invented the telephone iv) Elisha Gray's similar project.
3. Bell and Watson were not expecting the telephone to work the day that the first telephone call was made. What evidence from the text supports this statement?
i) "But in the 1870's, when Bell was experimenting with his new project. such an idea was like a fantasy."
ii) "Watson heard those words and was startled. They had come crackling across the earpiece of what the two inventors had labelled the telephone." iii) "Alexander Graham Bell was in his laboratory, working on a device that would allow people to talk to one another across wires, even when they were not in the same room
iv) "It is unclear what exactly unfolded that day, but one story says that while working on his voice transmitter, Bell accidentally knocked over a bottle of transmitting fluid, burning his skin."
4. If Bell had not invented the telephone, what would probably have happened? i) Someone else would have invented a similar device and registered it as his own.
ii) The modern telephone would not have been invented for another hundred years.
iii) Mabel Hubbard would have married Watson instead of Bell.
iv) They would have focused on some other multi-signalling transmission device.
5. Why was Bell challenged a dozen times in lawsuits?
i) Because he created a company called 'Bell Telephone Company.
ii) Because of the challenges faced by deaf people.
iii) Because other inventors claimed to have invented the telephone.
iv) Because Thomas Watson was helping Bell.
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