Mary's Nickname
What is Typhoid Mary
What brought George Sopor to the Warren family home?
What is typhoid fever.
What kind of carrier was Mary?
What is a healthy carrier
“Yet, she wasn’t afraid to chase officials away, elude doctors,
Fight the police, swear, argue, and write angry letters until
The courts were forced to take notice of her.”
What does elude mean?
What is evade or escape
Does this support a victim or a villain?
"There was Mary, earning her living in the hospital kitchen, spreading typhoid germs."
What is....villain!
What was her job?
What is cook
How long was Mary quarantined?
What is 3 years and 23 years?
Who was stereotyped to be the group to have Typhoid?
Who were the poor people
“Josephine and the police hunted through every
Closet and cupboard in the house, searching for the
Fugitive”
How does the word fugitive affect the tone of this
Sentence?
What is a negative or bad tone.
Does this support a victim or a villain?
"The family's cook, hired just three weeks before everyone got sick, had recently quit."
Villain
Where is Mary from
What is Ireland
Where did they send Mary?
Where is Brother's Island
What was the conditions from the supreme court that Mary had to follow to get out of quarantine.
What is she had to stop cooking
"While Henry walked the streets, John spent hours every night in his study, poring over the data they had collected.
What does poring mean?
What is studying.
Villain- Mary is responsible for the death of two people at the maternity hospital. How does this make her a villain?
What is she went back to cooking against the law.
Who were the investigators for her case?
Who was George Soper and Josephine Baker
What did George demand of Mary? (all three)
What is blood, urine, and feces
What new technology allowed for testing of Mary's samples?
What is the microscope.
"Sure enough, when doctors analyzed Mary's fluid samples, they were teeming with typhoid bacteria."
What does teeming mean?
What is overflowing or full of
What does Mary's case make people wonder about regarding the government?
What is how far the government should go during epidemics and how they should treat people.
What caused Mary to go back to quarantine afte released?
What was she went back to cook at the maternity hospital.
What is she was poor, woman, uneducated, and unskilled.
"Doctors and officals 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."
What does branded mean?
What is a specific type of person, distinct identity, or targeted person
"She had very little power in the society in which she lived." This proves she could have been a victim. How could the government helped her during the time?
What is educated her and supported her to find another job.