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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Building the Case as Snow survey the Golden Square neighborhood, how many deaths lay outside the boundary line of Snow's map?
(a) 10.
(b) 18.
(c) 5.
(d) 15.

2. In Building the Case, what was the career of St. Luke's scripture reader?
(a) Professor.
(b) Butcher.
(c) Grocer.
(d) Grenadier guard.

3. In Building the Case, what did the proprietor of a coffee shop mix with Broad Street water and sell?
(a) Soup.
(b) Sherbet.
(c) Ice cream.
(d) Cookies.

4. How long was the monograph titled "The Cholera in Benwick Street" that Whitehead wrote?
(a) 17 pages.
(b) 12 pages.
(c) 9 pages.
(d) 11 pages.

5. In The Pump Handle, how many directives did Benjamin Hall issue for the three-man committee formed to investigate the Broad Street outbreak?
(a) 60.
(b) 39.
(c) 45.
(d) 50.

6. In The Pump Handle, when did Snow give Whitehead a copy of his monograph?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1855.
(c) 1857.
(d) 1854.

7. In The Ghost Map during the cholera outbreak in 1866, how many people had died by the end of August?
(a) 2,500.
(b) 1,100.
(c) More than 4,000.
(d) About 3,000.

8. In Building the Case, when did survivors who reported consuming large quantities of water from the Broad Street pump do their drinking?
(a) After Tuesday.
(b) After Sunday.
(c) After Monday.
(d) After Saturday.

9. In Building the Case, what was the name of St. Luke's scripture reader?
(a) Peter Anderson.
(b) James Richardson.
(c) Martin Trevor.
(d) David Wilson.

10. In 1846 what did Edwin Chadwick tell a parliamentary committee that the problem of London sewage was?
(a) The quantity.
(b) The bacteria.
(c) The smell.
(d) The contamination of water.

11. How many pages of "Sedgwick's Principles of Sanitary Science and Public Health" mention the Board of Health verdict of the Broad Street outbreak?
(a) 3.
(b) A couple.
(c) 2.
(d) None.

12. In The Ghost Map when the news sewers were construction, how much did it cost to build the main intercepting sewers?
(a) 3 million pounds.
(b) 4 million pounds.
(c) 5 million pounds.
(d) 2 million pounds.

13. In All Smell is Disease, according to Joseph Bazalgette, how many cesspools were abolished in about six years?
(a) 30,000.
(b) 35,000.
(c) 25,000.
(d) 20,000.

14. In Building the Case, upon what skills did Snow's cholera theory ultimately depend?
(a) Sociologist.
(b) Inventor.
(c) Physician.
(d) Researcher.

15. When was Edwin Chadwick appointed to the Poor Law Commission?
(a) 1832.
(b) 1829.
(c) 1831.
(d) 1827.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Pump Handle, as Whitehead tracked down residents who left the neighborhood, how many was he able to find?

2. In All Smell is Disease, how did John Snow spend September 5?

3. In The Ghost Map, when was there a horrible stench along the banks of the Thames?

4. What did Farr give Snow when he visited the Registrar-General's office?

5. What did the Board of Health have put on the streets in All Smell is Disease?

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