Frederick Banting: How One Life Changed the World

Questions

1. Sequence Which of these happened first?

   Banting shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Banting began experiments with Charles Best in Toronto that led to insulin Banting helped equip ambulances with X-ray machines to treat soldiers in World War I Banting helped give the first insulin treatment to a boy with diabetes
2. Details In what year did this happen? "Banting began experiments with Charles Best in Toronto that led to insulin."

   1914 1921 1891 1923
3. Timeline math How many years passed between these two events? First: "Banting began experiments with Charles Best in Toronto that led to insulin." Later: "He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine."

   12 32 2 3
4. Timeline math About how old was Banting in 1923?

   44 32 27 37
5. Vocabulary In the passage, what does "insulin" mean?

   growing different crops in a field from year to year to keep the soil healthy the wearing away of soil or rock by wind or water a substance the body needs to use sugar for energy the curved path an object takes around a planet or star
6. Character traits Which word best describes Frederick Banting?

   bored careless unkind determined
7. Evidence Which detail from the passage shows that Banting was determined?

   He wondered how doctors could see inside the body in slices, not just in flat X-rays. He designed experiments with special flasks to prove where germs came from. He questioned why objects fall and why the Moon stays in the sky. He kept working through months of failed experiments in a hot, cramped laboratory.
8. Main idea What is this passage mostly about?

   the life and work of Frederick Banting the life and work of Marie Curie the life and work of George Washington Carver the life and work of Alexander Graham Bell
9. Text structure How does the author organize the middle of the passage?

   from most important to least important event in time order, from earlier events to later ones by comparing two people as a problem and its solution
10. Author's purpose Why does the author end with the final paragraph?

    to show that his work still matters today to list every prize the person won to explain how to do an experiment to tell a funny story

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