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New York still has old apartment buildings crowded together, meant for several families per floor, with no elevators, like where Prudence lived. What do we call these buildings?
tenements
Typhoid can spread by the fecal-oral route if cooks don't do what?
Wash their hands after going to the bathroom
Prudence misses someone who died of infection after an accident with a horse on the street. Who is this?
Her brother
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Find 2 past tense verbs in this sentence: "She mentioned another employment bureau that placed the cook in her next job."
"She mentioned another employment bureau that placed the cook in her next job" (Chibbaro 94).
This place was "a giant room ... with dozens of tools and test tubes and microscopes, things I wanted to touch and look at" (Chibbaro 34). Name the place and explain why Prudence was interested in it.
It's the lab at Prudence's new job. She likes science and wants to learn more, especially about disease.
Prudence wondered how bacteria could go from one person to another, "as in a contagion" (Chibbaro 81). She was referring to yellow fever, a contagious disease. What's the difference contagious and contagion?
Contagious is an adjective ("a contagious disease"), and contagion is a noun ("in a contagion").
Prudence and her mother both miss her father. What happened to him?
He didn't come back from the war in Cuba.
How many brothers does Craig have?
2
Change this sentence to the past: "The challenge ahead of us is to find this elusive cook and test her for the typhoid germ by examining her body fluids" (Chibbaro 96).
"The challenge ahead of us was to find this elusive cook and test her for the typhoid germ by examining her body fluids."
Where was Prudence when she said "How strange it felt to be served by a real butler"? (Chibbaro 52)
In Mrs. Browning's house, talking about her job and her school schedule
We can say "catch a disease" or "contract a disease" when we get infected. What do we say when we share a disease? (Two possible answers)
You infect other people.
You spread the disease.
This person had a bookstore in the neighborhood before moving away to live on a farm.
Anushka's dad
Why is the letter T like an island?
They're in the middle of waTer.
Change this part of a sentence to the negative: "... I found myself drawn to watching the worms move about on the ground after dog and owner left" (Chibbaro 97).
"... I didn't find myself drawn to watching the worms move about on the ground after dog and owner left."
This place is connected to the toilets, and it's where Mr. Soper and Prudence collected samples to test for typhoid.
the septic field in the backyard of the mansion (page 67)
"the Thompsons came down with the typhoid at nearly the same time" (81) means that they ...
all got sick at almost the same time
Who makes Prudence uncomfortable at work?
The young man in the lab, and sometimes Mr. Soper
What do the letters in CLIP stand for?
CUNY Language Immersion Program
Change this sentence to a question: "We reached the next home, where the lady remembered Mary, and the sickness" (Chibbaro 94).
"Did we reach the next home, where the lady remembered Mary, and the sickness?"
Through her job, Prudence got a chance to see how other people lived. Where was she when she realized how the way we live can change us? What did she start to understand more?
Sh was at some farms in Oyster Bay. She got a sense of how urban life is different from rural life, like her life compared to Anushka's.
COVID and tuberculosis are airborne diseases because they spread through the air. How is typhoid different?
Typhoid is spread through contaminated food or water.
This person is very important to the story, but it won't be easy for Prudence and Mr. Soper to find her.
Mary Mallon
What's the difference between an associate's degree and a bachelor's degree?
Credits:
An associate's degree has 60 credits.
A bachelor's degree has 120 credits.
Change this sentence to a question and identify the infinitive in it: "Mr. Soper wanted to know if they remembered the cook, and if they knew anything about her past, or her present whereabouts" (Chibbaro 92).
"Did Mr. Soper want to know if they remembered the cook, and if they knew anything about her past, or her present whereabouts"