How X-Ray Machines Were Built — Questions and answers

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What question did Sora ask her Grandpa about doctors?

Choices

  1. How trains rumble past.
  2. How doctors see inside people. ✓
  3. Who invented coffee mugs.
  4. What tune Grandpa was humming.

Answer: How doctors see inside people.

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What did Sora use to find out about X-rays?

Choices

  1. A magical glowing ball.
  2. A large, leather-bound book. ✓
  3. Her grandpa's coffee mug.
  4. A shimmering wall.

Answer: A large, leather-bound book.

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Why did Wilhelm call the mysterious rays 'X-rays'?

Choices

  1. Because they looked like the letter X.
  2. Because he didn't know what they were. ✓
  3. Because they were extremely fast.
  4. Because they glowed in the dark.

Answer: Because he didn't know what they were.

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What did Wilhelm ask Anna to do on December 22, 1895?

Choices

  1. Help him clean the lab.
  2. Place her hand between the tube and a photographic plate. ✓
  3. Go buy more black cardboard.
  4. Watch the Crookes tube glow.

Answer: Place her hand between the tube and a photographic plate.

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What was special about the image Wilhelm developed from Anna's hand?

Choices

  1. It was a picture of a beautiful flower.
  2. It was the first X-ray image of a human skeleton. ✓
  3. It showed a map of Würzburg, Germany.
  4. It was a drawing of the Crookes tube.

Answer: It was the first X-ray image of a human skeleton.

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How did X-rays help doctors right away?

Choices

  1. They helped doctors find new medicines.
  2. They allowed doctors to see broken bones without surgery. ✓
  3. They showed doctors how to fly.
  4. They made doctors' offices glow.

Answer: They allowed doctors to see broken bones without surgery.

From page 8

What advice did Anna give Sora before she left?

Choices

  1. To always remember her name.
  2. To never stop being curious. ✓
  3. To clean her room every day.
  4. To build her own lab.

Answer: To never stop being curious.

From page 9

Who did Sora tell her Grandpa invented X-rays?

Choices

  1. Leonardo da Vinci.
  2. Anna Bertha and Wilhelm Roentgen. ✓
  3. Just Anna Bertha.
  4. Just Wilhelm Roentgen.

Answer: Anna Bertha and Wilhelm Roentgen.

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