RI 2.3: Who was Sally Ride?

RI 2.3: Who was Sally Ride?

By Maia Neal

Multiple Choice

1. What did Sally Ride do to help young people learn about space?

• She took trips into space.

• She played many different sports.

• She went to a college that she liked

• She wrote some books about science.

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2. Studying_____ in college was important to Sally Ride because it helped her______.

• physics

• biology

• chemistry

• english

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Studying physics in college was important to Sally Ride because it helped her______.

• stay healthy in space

• write better books about space

• understand the movement of objects in space

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3. According to this passage, why was Sally Ride added to the Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2003?

• because of her had work

• because she landed on the moon

• because she drove a rover on Mars

• because she discovered a new planet

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4. Why was Sally Ride's job on the space shuttle so important?

• because she flew the space shuttle all by herself

• because she helped put satellites into space with a robotic arm

• because she took pictures of each part of the space shuttle mission.

• because she recorded all the data that was collected on the mission.

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5. What are two things that Sally Ride did after high school?

• studied physics

• wrote books about tennis

• played professional volleyball

• went to college in California

• rode a bicycle across the United State

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6. Read Paragraph 3. Then choose a phrase from each blank to correctly complete the sentence.

Sally Ride decided to ________ after she _____.

• play pro tennis

• take a physics class

• apply for a job as an astronaut

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6. Read Paragraph 3. Then choose a phrase from each blank to correctly complete the sentence.

Sally Ride decided to apply for a job as an astronaut after she _____.

• finished school

• saw an ad in the newspaper

• made it to the Astronaut hall of Fame

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7. Read Paragraph 5.

In the NASA project that Sally Ride came up with, what do the students do after they take picture of Earth using the camera on the space station.

• study the pictures

• visit the space station

• send the pictures to Sally Ride

• build a model of the earth and send it to NASA

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8. What did Sally Ride do after she stopped working for NASA?

• built a robotic arm

• started teaching at a college

• flew on the space shuttle

• worked on satellites in space

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9. Read paragraph 5.

Why did Sally Ride start a project where students took pictures of Earth using the camera on the space station?

• NASA asked her to do it

• She got bored sitting at home

• She wanted to be in the Astronaut Hall of Fame

• She wanted to help women and girls study science and math

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9. Read paragraph 5.

Which sentence from paragraph 5 best supports the answer to Part A?

• "Ride stopped working for NASA in 1987"

• "She started teaching at a college"

• "She started looking for ways to help women and girls who wanted to study science and math".

• "This project lets middle school students take picture of Earth using a camera on the space station."

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10. Which two reasons show why Sally Ride was picked to be in the Astronaut Hall of Fame.

• She liked to play different kinds of sports.

• She studied science when she was in college

• She did many helpful things in space.

• She taught classes at a college when she left NASA

• She flew in space before any other American Woman.