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

2. In The Pump Handle, for what age children was getting water from the Broad Street pump a common chore?
(a) Any child older than 8.
(b) Any child older than 6 or 7.
(c) Any child older than 11.
(d) Any child older than 9 or 10.

3. In All Smell is Disease, how many people died in the cholera outbreak of 1848-1849?
(a) 7,500.
(b) Nearly 15,000.
(c) 9,000.
(d) About 11,000.

4. When did Edwin Chadwick publish his study of sanitation among the laboring classes?
(a) 1841.
(b) 1852.
(c) 1840.
(d) 1842.

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

6. In Building the Case, how far was a tailor on Cross Street from The Little Marlborough Street pump?
(a) 3 blocks.
(b) 4 blocks.
(c) 1 block.
(d) 2 blocks.

7. In All Smell is Disease, up until what date was it illegal to discharge raw waste into the sewers?
(a) 1804.
(b) 1821.
(c) 1819.
(d) 1815.

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

9. In The Pump Handle, how many cases of cholera were reported on Saturday morning according to The Globe?
(a) 8.
(b) 7 or 8.
(c) 11.
(d) 9 or 10.

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

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

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

13. In Building the Case, when was the tailor on Cross Street and his 12-year-old son struck with cholera?
(a) Saturday.
(b) First hours.
(c) Sunday.
(d) 12 hours.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Building the Case, how many quarts of Broad Street water did a boy tell Whitehead he had drunk from the Broad Street pump?

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

3. In Building the Case, within how many days did a tailor on Cross Street and his children die?

4. When did Whitehead believe that paitent zero would have fallen ill?

5. In The Ghost Map, when did Snow give testimony in Parliament on behalf of the "offensive Trades" (204)?

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