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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. In Building the Case, within how many days did a tailor on Cross Street and his children die?
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

8. In The Pump Handle, when did Snow give Whitehead a copy of his monograph?
(a) 1855.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1854.
(d) 1857.

9. In Building the Case, what was the name of St. Luke's scripture reader?
(a) James Richardson.
(b) Martin Trevor.
(c) David Wilson.
(d) Peter Anderson.

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

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

12. In Building the Case, what did the proprietor of a coffee shop mix with Broad Street water and sell?
(a) Soup.
(b) Sherbet.
(c) Ice cream.
(d) Cookies.

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

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

15. In The Ghost Map, when did Snow suffer a stroke?
(a) May 11, 1858.
(b) August 10, 1858.
(c) July 3, 1858.
(d) June 10, 1858.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long was the monograph titled "The Cholera in Benwick Street" that Whitehead wrote?

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

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

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

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

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