Kathleen Lonsdale: a Life in Science

Questions

1. Sequence Which of these happened first?

   Lonsdale was made a member of a British society of arts Lonsdale used X-rays to prove that the benzene ring is flat Lonsdale helped equip ambulances with X-ray machines to treat soldiers in World War I Lonsdale became one of the first two women elected Fellows of the Royal Society
2. Details In what year did this happen? "Lonsdale became one of the first two women elected Fellows of the Royal Society."

   1955 1949 1945 1938
3. Timeline math How many years passed between these two events? First: "Lonsdale used X-rays to prove that the benzene ring is flat." Later: "She became a professor at University College London."

   46 30 19 20
4. Vocabulary In the passage, what does "crystal" mean?

   carefully watching something to learn about it a solid whose tiny particles are arranged in a repeating pattern a statement in mathematics that has been proved true a set of step-by-step instructions for solving a problem
5. Character traits Which word best describes Kathleen Lonsdale?

   unkind careful careless lazy
6. Evidence Which detail from the passage shows that Lonsdale was careful?

   She finished high school at 14 and college at 18. She measured X-ray patterns by hand for months to be sure her results were right. She believed a calculating machine could one day work with music and pictures, not just numbers. She looked for a faster way to cover burns so that patients would heal with fewer scars.
7. Main idea What is this passage mostly about?

   the life and work of Ada Lovelace the life and work of George Washington Carver the life and work of Jane Goodall the life and work of Kathleen Lonsdale
8. Text structure How does the author organize the middle of the passage?

   as a list of steps to follow as a problem and its solution by comparing two people in time order, from earlier events to later ones

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