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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Ghost Map, how many miles of sewers were constructed by Bazalgette and his team?

2. When did Edwin Chadwick publish his study of sanitation among the laboring classes?

3. In All Smell is Disease, when did Benjamin become president of the Board of Health?

4. In All Smell is Disease, up until what date was it illegal to discharge raw waste into the sewers?

5. How many pages of "Sedgwick's Principles of Sanitary Science and Public Health" mention the Board of Health verdict of the Broad Street outbreak?

Short Essay Questions

1. In All Smell is Disease, why might Henry Whitehead have believed that the cholera might be ending?

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

3. In Building the Case, what finally persuaded authorities that cholera was waterborne?

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

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

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

7. How did Whitehead and Snow begin working together in The Pump Handle?

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

9. Why was the pump handle removed on September 8?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author said it would be tempting to set Snow up as the solitary genius who discarded conventional wisdom and used his intellect to solve a problem. How did Snow solve the mystery of cholera transmission, and what does that reveal about the way that most intellectual breakthroughs occur?

Essay Topic 2

Johnson uses imagery to help readers imagine what London and the cholera outbreak were like. How does Johnson’s use of imagery help readers understand the times and problems that people faced?

Essay Topic 3

Snow persuaded authorities to remove the Broad Street pump handle. What did removing the handle symbolize, and how was removing the handle a turning point in history?

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