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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Mayhew in 1845, how many ships hauled animal manure to England?
(a) 549.
(b) 683.
(c) 311.
(d) 281.

2. For what ailment did Snow administer chloroform to a patient on September 6?
(a) Stitch a leg injury.
(b) Hemorrhoid removal.
(c) Stitch an arm injury.
(d) Child birth.

3. In 1843, where did a proposal want to have cast-iron sewers transport waste?
(a) Cumbria and Suffolk.
(b) Surrey.
(c) Kent and Essex.
(d) Shropshire.

4. In The Ghost Map, how many days after suffering a stroke, did Snow die?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

5. In The Pump Handle, when was the handle of the Broad Street pump removed?
(a) Friday morning.
(b) Thursday afternoon.
(c) Thursday night.
(d) Friday afternoon.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Building the Case, upon what skills did Snow's cholera theory ultimately depend?

2. In Building the Case, how many cholera patients were admitted to Middlesex Hospital?

3. How long did it take after Pacini glimpsed bacteria in his microscope for others to make the same discovery?

4. In The Ghost Map, when the new sewer system was designed, when was sewage discharged into the Thames?

5. In The Pump Handle, how many cases of cholera were reported on Saturday morning according to The Globe?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Hall's instructions to the three-man committee investigating the cholera outbreak in The Pump Handle, tilt the results?

2. In Building the Case, what did Snow discover that seemed to point to a reason why residents at 50 Poland Street and workers at the Lion Brewery did not contract cholera?

3. How did Henry Mayhew see waste recycling as a way of increasing population growth?

4. In The Pump Handle, what was discovered when a surveyor examined the cesspool at the base of 40 Broad?

5. In Building the Case, why did residents in well-to-do neighborhoods believe that the outbreak of cholera took place among the poor?

6. Why was the removal of the pump handle on September 8 significant?

7. When and why would a tailor send one of his boys to get well water at the Broad Street pump in Building the Case?

8. In The Ghost Map, why was Edmund Cooper sent to investigate the Broad Street epidemic?

9. Through the new sewer system, how much waste was deposited into the Thames and what was the result?

10. In All Smell is Disease, what one action did the Board of Health see was completed and why?

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