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