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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In The Pump Handle, how long did the deaths in Soho continue after the pump handle was removed?
(a) Another week.
(b) About 4 days.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 3 days.

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

3. 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.

4. 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) 3.
(b) 8.
(c) 4.
(d) 11.

5. What class of people did Whitehead notice during a sermon had survived the plague in disproportionate numbers?
(a) Poor teenagers.
(b) Poor, elderly men.
(c) Poor, elderly women.
(d) Poor children under ten.

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

7. How long did it take after Pacini glimpsed bacteria in his microscope for others to make the same discovery?
(a) 50 years.
(b) 3 decades.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 4 decades.

8. In "Sedgwick's Principles of Sanitary Science and Public Health", how many pages are devoted to the Broad Street outbreak?
(a) 9.
(b) 12.
(c) 11.
(d) 10.

9. When Whitehead research the records, how long did he discover that the Lewis baby was sick before she died?
(a) 4 days.
(b) 5 days.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 2 days.

10. In Building the Case, how many quarts of water did a girl say she had drunk from the Broad Street pump during her successful attempt to fight off the disease?
(a) 2.
(b) 9.
(c) 17.
(d) 15.

11. At the beginning of All Smell is Disease, how many people did Whitehead see recover?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

12. In All Smell is Disease, how far back did the miasma theory date to?
(a) Fourth century A.D.
(b) 312 A.D.
(c) 104 B.C.
(d) Third century B.C.

13. In Building the Case, how long does it take the V. cholerae bacteria to die off in distilled water?
(a) Few days.
(b) 3 hours.
(c) A matter of hours.
(d) 2 days.

14. In Building the Case, what part of the body was affected by cholera?
(a) Cardiac system.
(b) Small intestine.
(c) Circulatory system.
(d) Respiratory system.

15. 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) 4 million pounds.
(d) 3 million pounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. By September 5, how many residents of the Golden Square neighborhood died in the last 5 days?

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

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

4. In Building the Case, what was the career of St. Luke's scripture reader?

5. In Building the Case, when was the tailor on Cross Street and his 12-year-old son struck with cholera?

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