Kalpana Chawla: How One Life Changed the World

Questions

1. Sequence Which of these happened first?

   Chawla earned her engineering degree in Chandigarh, India Chawla earned a doctorate in aerospace engineering in the United States Chawla flew into space aboard the space shuttle Columbia Chawla helped equip ambulances with X-ray machines to treat soldiers in World War I
2. Sequence Which of these happened last?

   Chawla earned a doctorate in aerospace engineering in the United States Chawla earned her engineering degree in Chandigarh, India Chawla flew into space aboard the space shuttle Columbia Chawla was selected to train as a NASA astronaut
3. Details In what year did this happen? "Chawla earned a doctorate in aerospace engineering in the United States."

   1988 1998 1962 1997
4. Timeline math How many years passed between these two events? First: "Chawla earned her engineering degree in Chandigarh, India." Later: "She earned a doctorate in aerospace engineering in the United States."

   16 26 5 6
5. Timeline math About how old was Chawla in 1997?

   30 35 47 40
6. Vocabulary In the passage, what does "aerospace engineering" mean?

   a room or building for experiments and research designing and building aircraft and spacecraft a substance that trains the body to fight a disease a person trained to travel into space
7. Character traits Which word best describes Kalpana Chawla?

   lazy careless forgetful ambitious
8. Evidence Which detail from the passage shows that Chawla was ambitious?

   As a child she dreamed of flying and went on to study aerospace engineering. She sat quietly in the forest for months before the chimpanzees let her come close. She looked for a faster way to cover burns so that patients would heal with fewer scars. She believed a calculating machine could one day work with music and pictures, not just numbers.
9. Main idea What is this passage mostly about?

   the life and work of Jane Goodall how to become a teacher the life and work of Kalpana Chawla the life and work of Marie Curie
10. Text structure How does the author organize the middle of the passage?

    as a list of steps to follow by comparing two people in time order, from earlier events to later ones from most important to least important event
11. Author's purpose Why does the author end with the final paragraph?

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

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