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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In All Smell is Disease, how did John Snow spend September 5?
(a) Analyzing water samples.
(b) Treating patients.
(c) Looking for patterns.
(d) Taking water samples to a chemist.

2. During the Great Stink along the Thames in The Ghost Map, how did the rates of death from epidemic disease rise or fall?
(a) There was a 20% increase in deaths.
(b) There was a 5% decrease in deaths.
(c) They rose a great deal.
(d) They were normal.

3. In The Pump Handle, among the 45 houses extending in all directions from the intersection of Broad and Cambridge streets, how many managed to survive the epidemic without losing a single resident?
(a) 11.
(b) 8.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

4. In All Smell is Disease, what did the records Farr showed Snow reveal about the number of deaths in Soho between Thursday and Saturday?
(a) 78.
(b) 83.
(c) 91.
(d) 86.

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

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

7. In Building the Case, how many quarts of Broad Street water did a boy tell Whitehead he had drunk from the Broad Street pump?
(a) 1.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

8. How old was Snow when he died?
(a) 45.
(b) 62.
(c) 39.
(d) 51.

9. In Building the Case, who were the proprietors of the Lion Brewery?
(a) Bryan and Peter Strothers.
(b) Edward and John Huggins.
(c) Richard and Andrew Wyatt.
(d) Robert and David Smythe.

10. In The Ghost Map, who was sometimes credited instead of Snow for the discovery of the waterborne theory of the dispersion of cholera?
(a) William Farr.
(b) John Sutherland.
(c) Benjamin Hall.
(d) William Budd.

11. By September 5, how many residents of the Golden Square neighborhood died in the last 5 days?
(a) More than 500.
(b) 450.
(c) 630.
(d) About 300.

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

13. 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) None.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) A couple.

14. At number 10 Cross Street, who lived with a tailor in his single room in Building the Case?
(a) Mother, wife, and 3 children.
(b) Wife and 2 children.
(c) 5 children.
(d) 4 children.

15. 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 Saturday.
(c) After Sunday.
(d) After Monday.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Pump Handle, when did the board of governors of St. James Parish hold an emergency meeting?

2. In Building the Case, how far was a tailor on Cross Street from The Little Marlborough Street pump?

3. In The Ghost Map, when did the "Daily News" accuse the sewer builders of unearthing human remains?

4. In All Smell is Disease, how far back did the miasma theory date to?

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

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