Characters
Vocabulary
Mary Mallon
Department of Health and Sanitation
Misc.
100
She is not "boy crazy" as other girls her age, although she does start to have a crush on an older man.
Who is Prudence?
100
eldest
What is another word for "old"?
100
She was the first of her kind.
What is a "healthy carrier"?
100
He is the reason the Dept. of Health and Sanitation was formed.
Who is Jacob Riis?
100
This is Marm's occupation.
What is a midwife?
200
This person needs to be brought in by force after she has brandished a knife and a carving fork at Mr. Soper and Prudence.
Who is Mary Mallon?
200
This means "to isolate"?
What is quarantine?
200
Mary spreads her disease through this.
What is her cooking?
200
Every tenement had to have these two things according to the Dept. of Health and Sanitation.
What is running water and an air ventilation system?
200
This is the war that Prudence's father left the family for.
What is the Spanish-American War?
300
He is the Superintendent of the Dept. of Health and Sanitation.
Who is Mr. Briggs?
300
A place where people lived. Could also be referred to as an apartment.
What is a tenement?
300
Mary Mallon made this for the Thompson family, and this is how they got typhoid fever.
What is peach ice cream?
300
This is Mr. Brigg's title at the Dept. of Health and Sanitation.
What is the Superintendent?
300
Soliders from the South sent soliders from the North blankets that were wrapped around soliders that had died from this disease.
What is small pox?
400
Prudence is skeptical of this man when she first meets him because she is afraid of what her father might think when he comes home.
Who is Mr. Silver?
400
This character tends to linger around after work to wait for Prudence and lurks around the science lab looking for her.
Who is Jonathan?
400
She has infected 27 people with this disease and 1 person has died.
What is typhoid fever?
400
She is brought in by the Dept. of Health and Sanitation to help bring in Mary Mallon.
Who is Dr. Josephine Baker?
400
Using germs as a weapon of war is referred to as this.
What is "germ warfare"?
500
Prudence sterotypes this woman as being a "thick, ugly creature who's indelicately pushed her way through a man's field".
Who is Dr. Josephine Baker?
500
This word means "a disease that spreads rapidly".
What is an epidemic?
500
Mr. Soper called Mary Mallon this when accusing her of spreading typhoid fever.
What is a "Dirty Irish"?
500
This is the book that Jacob Riis wrote that got the Dept. of Health and Sanitation started.
What is "How the Other Half Lives"?
500
These are the three pieces of advice that Anushka gives to Prudence after she tells Anushka she has a crush on Mr. Soper.
What is keep cool, keep quiet, and pretend?
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