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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Whitehead conducted his investigation in The Pump Handle, how much did drinking from the Broad Street well increase a person's risk of infection?
(a) 8 times.
(b) 4 times.
(c) 5 times.
(d) 7 times.

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

3. When was Edwin Chadwick appointed to the Poor Law Commission?
(a) 1832.
(b) 1827.
(c) 1831.
(d) 1829.

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

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

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

7. In The Ghost Map, in what publication did an unsigned editorial appear that lambasted Snow's waterborne theory of cholera?
(a) Daily Mail.
(b) The Daily Telegraph.
(c) The Times.
(d) The Lancet.

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

9. 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) 17.
(b) 15.
(c) 2.
(d) 9.

10. 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 9 or 10.
(c) Any child older than 11.
(d) Any child older than 6 or 7.

11. In The Pump Handle, as Whitehead tracked down residents who left the neighborhood, how many was he able to find?
(a) 497.
(b) 386.
(c) 529.
(d) 281.

12. In The Ghost Map when a new sewer system was designed, how many main lines were to run north of the Thames?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

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

14. 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) 86.
(c) 91.
(d) 83.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what ailment did Snow administer chloroform to a patient on September 6?

2. When Whitehead research the records, how long did he discover that the Lewis baby was sick before she died?

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

4. In The Pump Handle, how many people living within 250 yards of the Broad Street pump died in less than two weeks?

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

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