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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1843, where did a proposal want to have cast-iron sewers transport waste?
(a) Kent and Essex.
(b) Shropshire.
(c) Surrey.
(d) Cumbria and Suffolk.

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

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

4. 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) 3.
(b) A couple.
(c) 2.
(d) None.

5. 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) 9 or 10.
(d) 11.

6. In Building the Case as Snow survey the Golden Square neighborhood, how many deaths lay outside the boundary line of Snow's map?
(a) 15.
(b) 5.
(c) 18.
(d) 10.

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

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

9. In The Ghost Map, when was there a horrible stench along the banks of the Thames?
(a) 1858.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1859.

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

11. In The Ghost Map, when did the "Daily News" accuse the sewer builders of unearthing human remains?
(a) September 7.
(b) September 9.
(c) September 8.
(d) September 11.

12. In All Smell Is Disease, when was a study done that discovered that strong smells triggered activity in the amygdala and the ventral insula of the brain?
(a) 2001.
(b) 2003.
(c) 1998.
(d) 1976.

13. When did Whitehead believe that paitent zero would have fallen ill?
(a) Around August 28.
(b) August 30.
(c) Around August 29.
(d) August 31.

14. In The Ghost Map, how many miles of sewers were constructed by Bazalgette and his team?
(a) 94.
(b) 68.
(c) 59.
(d) 82.

15. In The Pump Handle, when did the board of governors of St. James Parish hold an emergency meeting?
(a) Thursday night.
(b) Wednesday night.
(c) Tuesday night.
(d) Friday night.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Building the Case, how many cholera patients were admitted to Middlesex Hospital?

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

3. How long did it take after Pacini glimpsed bacteria in his microscope for others to make the same discovery?

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

5. In All Smell Is Disease, what was the lifespan of some of the men who worked in the sewers?

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