Patient Zero- Ch 4 Analysis

Read this excerpt from Patient Zero, and answer the question that follows.

“Typhoid! It was unthinkable. Wealthy New York bankers’ wives and daughters were not supposed to get typhoid, not in 1906. Not in fashionable resort towns like Oyster Bay, Long Island.”

What idea is the repetition of “not” developing in this excerpt?

• The Warrens wanted the doctors to change their diagnosis.

• Oyster Bay had created special hospitals for fighting typhoid

• Typhoid was not supposed to affect the “rich and privileged.”

• People did not believe Soper about the idea of a “healthy carrier.”

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.4

What idea interacted with Mary’s actions to cause George Soper to suspect her of spreading typhoid?

• The cesspool for the home was solid

• People could carry typhoid without being sick.

• The other customers of the clam seller did not get sick.

• Rich and privileged people were not supposed to get typhoid

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CCSS.RI.7.3

What do the events so far suggest about what is happening with Mary Mallon and typhoid? What interaction of ideas and individuals supports this theory?

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.3

Read the following sentence from Patient Zero, and answer the question that follows.

“The doctor and the police had to haul the angry, fighting woman out of the house and into a waiting ambulance” (80).

How does the word haul contribute to the meaning of this sentence?

• by showing that Mary was a complainer

• by expressing the police’s sympathy for Mary

• by emphasizing how Mary had accepted her fate

• by suggesting that it wasn’t easy to move Mary

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CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RL.7.4

Patient Zero acted ____________ when she left shortly after everyone in the house got sick.

• careless

• concerned

• helpful

• suspiciously

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CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RL.7.4

How did the idea of healthy carriers influence what happened during the typhoid epidemic? (RI.3)

• 1. It caused newspapers to begin using the phrase “Typhoid Mary.”

• 1. It explains why Mary was detained although she appeared healthy.

• 1. It led officials to expand prison stays in order to keep the illness from spreading.

• It caused changes in the way people were trained for jobs after being released from prison.

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CCSS.RI.7.3

What is one way the events of the typhoid epidemic changed people’s ideas about disease? (RI.3)

• It proved that disease was not related to sanitation.

• It showed that disease could infect all kinds of people.

• It made people question epidemiologists’ understanding of disease.

• It convinced journalists not to share information about people affected by disease.

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CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.3

1. Read the following sentence, and then answer the question.

“From the beginning, newspapers had a field day reporting on Mary Mallon’s case. When an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1908 called her “Typhoid Mary,” the tabloids started using it too. Before long, Typhoid Mary was a household name.” (84)

How does the phrase household name contribute to the meaning of this sentence? (RI.4)

• by explaining how Mary got her name

• by showing that Mary was widely known

• 1. by adding to the idea that Mary was persistent

• 1. by emphasizing how upset Mary was by the coverage

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CCSS.RI.7.4

Use the phrase “household name” to describe someone popular now, in a complete sentence.

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CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.7.4

1. Read the following sentence, and then answer the question.

“Doctors and officials were no doubt surprised to see Mary standing up for herself so fiercely, and her behavior may have branded her as a problem case in their eyes” (87).

How does the use of the word branded affect the tone of the sentence? (RI.4)

• 1. by showing that Mary was proud of her behavior

• 1. by highlighting how Mary had no choice but to act the way she did

• 1. by emphasizing the harshness of the view people had of Mary

• 1. by demonstrating that Mary was in control of opinions people spread about her

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4