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Crime & Punishment 7, Typhoid Mary
Crime & Punishment 7, Typhoid Mary
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Vocabulary: filth means
Dirt
Purity
Room
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What genre was this story?
Nonfiction
Historical fiction
Mystery
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Find the main idea.
George Soper was the first person to suspect Typhoid Mary.
Mary was a carrier of Typhoid & infected many before stopped
Typhoid is a powerful disease that kills 10% of those sick.
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It was hard for Mary to believe that she could spread typhoid because she ....
Did not even know that her victims were getting sick
Could not understand what Typhoid was
Was very healthy herself
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What do the authors imply by saying that the guests always left without eating her cooking.
Guests were afraid her cooking would give them Typhoid.
Mary really hated to cook.
Health officials would not permit Mary to have food at home.
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Mary Mallon had extraordinary strength, especially when angry.
Correct inference
Faulty inference
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Typhoid germs are carried around in...
The human body
Spoiled milk
Garbage fumes
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Usually when Mary's victims became ill, she ....
Packed her bags and left.
Reported their illness to the health department
Nursed them back to health
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Author's approach: What is the author's purpose in writing "Typhoid Mary"?
To describe a situation where a woman kills accidentally.
To inform the reader about advances in medicine.
To encourage the reader to cook his or her own food.
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Vocabulary: pattern means
Arrangement by chance
Worry
Set of repeating events or items
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Infer: Mary was a gentle, honest person who would go to great lengths not to hurt anyone.
Faulty inference
Correct inference
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Infer: it is a good idea to make sure that all workers in restaurants wash their hands often.
Faulty inference
Correct Inference
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Vocabulary: recover means
Get back to normal
Worsen
Become pale
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Infer: In the early 1900s wealthy people often hired cooks to prepare their meals in their home
Faulty inference
Correct inference
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Vocabulary: lunged means
Backed away from
Attacked
Shouted at
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From the article, you can predict that if Mary was let free, she would...
Gone back to cooking and not washing her hands.
Stopped cooking for a living (a job).
Started washing her hands better or wearing gloves.
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To get released, Mary agreed never to ...
Make her home in New York City
Work as a cook again
Leave the United States
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Infer: As long as you feel healthy and strong, you can't carry Typhoid germs.
Correct inference
Faulty inference
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Vocabulary: vanished means
Understood
Disappeared
Reappeared
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Mary Mallon cooked for wealthy families in...
Pennsylvania
Florida
New York City
