Louis Pasteur: How One Life Changed the World

Questions

1. Sequence Which of these happened first?

   Pasteur showed that a vaccine could protect sheep from a disease called anthrax Pasteur began studying why wine and milk spoiled Pasteur was made a member of a British society of arts Pasteur successfully treated a boy bitten by a dog with rabies
2. Sequence Which of these happened last?

   Pasteur tested a heating method, later called pasteurization, to kill harmful germs Pasteur began studying why wine and milk spoiled Pasteur successfully treated a boy bitten by a dog with rabies Pasteur showed that a vaccine could protect sheep from a disease called anthrax
3. Details In what year did this happen? "Pasteur tested a heating method, later called pasteurization, to kill harmful germs."

   1862 1856 1855 1822
4. Timeline math How many years passed between these two events? First: "Pasteur tested a heating method, later called pasteurization, to kill harmful germs." Later: "He successfully treated a boy bitten by a dog with rabies."

   33 23 63 22
5. Timeline math About how old was Pasteur in 1862?

   52 35 45 40
6. Vocabulary In the passage, what does "vaccine" mean?

   a substance that trains the body to fight a disease a statement in mathematics that has been proved true a solid whose tiny particles are arranged in a repeating pattern a room or building for experiments and research
7. Character traits Which word best describes Louis Pasteur?

   careless careful lazy bored
8. Evidence Which detail from the passage shows that Pasteur was careful?

   He designed experiments with special flasks to prove where germs came from. He learned advanced mathematics largely on his own, working through a borrowed book of formulas. He questioned why objects fall and why the Moon stays in the sky. He tested every idea with experiments, even when the results surprised everyone.
9. Main idea What is this passage mostly about?

   the life and work of Jane Goodall the life and work of George Washington Carver how to become a teacher the life and work of Louis Pasteur
10. 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 as a list of steps to follow by comparing two people
11. Author's purpose Why does the author end with the final paragraph?

    to describe where the person grew up to list every prize the person won to explain how to do an experiment to show that his work still matters today

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