Question

Passage (Margaret Knight, Inventor)

Answer 1

1) Margaret Knight was born in 1838 in Maine, where she invented kites and sleds for her siblings. These projects led to her coming up with new safety features for factories that she patented when she was only 12 years old, which propelled her to later success when she received 26 patents for her inventions. For this reason, some called her the "female Edison.

2) Margaret Knight was an extremely competent and successful inventor.

Answer: 1) Option D.  

2) Option C.

Explanation:

This passage talks about Margaret Knight who was a great inventor and was competent. She was born in Maine and started with the great inventions at a very young age with inventing kites and sled for her siblings to inventing grocery bags.

Her inventions led to establishing a company of her own and she was a proud owner of twenty six awards. All these achievements led to her being called as "female Edison".