Patient Zero Chapter 4 Review

The prefix of the word inevitable is ______. This prefix means ________.

The suffix in the word inevitable is _______. This suffix means ________.

Based on word parts, I can infer the meaning of the word inevitable is....

The suffix of the word penniless is ________. This suffix means ________.

The root of the word penniless is _______.

I can infer the meaning of the word penniless is....

Choose the text structure that is MAINLY used in this passage:

"One of the reasons Mary Mallon's story is still so fascinating is that there are so many unanswered questions about her. Did she suspect, before George Soper first approached her, that she might have had something to do with the typhoid that struck all the families she worked for? Why did she risk going back to cooking after she'd finally won her release form North Brother Island? Re-creating her story in articles and books and plays and movies, people have tried to make up their mind about Mary. Was she a villain? Or was she just an ordinary person whose life was ruined by an uncaring system?"

• Narrative

• Descriptive

• Argument

• Cause and Effect

Choose the text structure that is MAINLY used in this passage.

"As the Black Death made its way through Europe, other cities began imposing quarantines, sometimes sealing off entire neighborhoods or towns. But as a method of disease control, it could easily backfire. Thousands of panicked people would flee infected cities, hoping to get out before quarantine orders shut them in with the sick and dying. Inevitably, these people would develop the plague, spreading it far and wide."

• Cause and Effect

• Sequential/Process

• Descriptive

• Narration

Answer explanation

This passage MAINLY uses cause and effect, as it talks about the ways that the Black Death caused quarantines and that those quarantines caused people to make poor decisions.

How does the social idea that "only poor people get sick with typhoid" affect the Warren family?

How does the scientific idea of "there are healthy carriers of diseases like typhoid" affect Mary Mallon differently than George Soper?