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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In The Ghost Map, when the new sewer system was designed, when was sewage discharged into the Thames?
(a) High tide.
(b) Noon.
(c) Low tide.
(d) Midnight.

2. In The Pump Handle, how many deaths did Whitehead say occurred at the model home on Peter Street?
(a) 12.
(b) 5.
(c) 17.
(d) 21.

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

4. In All Smell is Disease, according to Joseph Bazalgette, how many cesspools were abolished in about six years?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 35,000.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 20,000.

5. In Building the Case, after how many hours after receiving Farr's early numbers, had Snow tracked down intimate details of behavior from surviving family and neighbors of more than 70 people?
(a) 30.
(b) 18.
(c) 24.
(d) 36.

6. In The Pump Handle, how many people did the author say were crowded into three city blocks?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 750.
(c) 250.
(d) 600.

7. In Building the Case, of the 83 deaths recorded on Farr's list, how many of those were in houses that were closer to the Broad Street pump than any other water source?
(a) 59.
(b) 67.
(c) 73.
(d) 80.

8. In All Smell Is Disease, what was the lifespan of some of the men who worked in the sewers?
(a) 40-50.
(b) 30-40.
(c) 60-80.
(d) 50-60.

9. In The Ghost Map, when was the new sewer system mostly operational?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1864.
(d) 1863.

10. 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) They rose a great deal.
(c) They were normal.
(d) There was a 5% decrease in deaths.

11. In All Smell is Disease, how many homes in 1849 were found to have offensive smells from bad drainage?
(a) 7,000.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 15,000.
(d) 3,000.

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

13. On September 6, to how many patients did Snow deliver chloroform?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

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

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 Monday.
(b) After Sunday.
(c) After Tuesday.
(d) After Saturday.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At the beginning of All Smell is Disease, how many people did Whitehead see recover?

3. How long did Thomas Lewis fight the disease before dying?

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?

5. 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?

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