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ReadWorks: Marie M. Daly: Chemist and Activist

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  • 1. Multiple Choice
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    In which subject was Marie M. Daly the first African American woman to get a PhD?

    biology

    physics

    chemistry

    Mathematics

  • 2. Multiple Choice
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    What effect did World War II have on Daly’s ability to get a job?

    Employers were looking to fill jobs left by men fighting overseas, so Daly was able to get a job in a lab.

    As World War II got more serious, more women quit their jobs to take care of their families at home, including Daly.

    World War II caused more women to serve in the military, and Daly decided to serve in the Navy as a pilot.

    As more men fought overseas, there were fewer jobs for women at home, so Daly had to wait until after the war to get a job.

  • 3. Multiple Choice
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    Read these sentences from the text. “She spent seven years studying the chemicals and proteins in the body that help with digestion. In 1955, Daly worked with Dr. Quentin B. Deming to figure out the cause of heart attacks. Together, they discovered how diet and foods affect the health of a person’s heart.”

    Her years studying digestion in the human body helped her make a discovery about how food affects the health of a person’s heart.

    At first, she wanted to study the way that digestion works in the human body, but she ended up working on something else.

    Her years studying digestion in the human body were a waste because she never used that research towards anything practical.

    She decided that chemistry wasn’t the right field for her after completing her doctorate and went into physics instead.

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