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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 36.
(b) 30.
(c) 24.
(d) 18.

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

3. 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) 91.
(b) 86.
(c) 83.
(d) 78.

4. 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.

5. For what ailment did Snow administer chloroform to a patient on September 6?
(a) Hemorrhoid removal.
(b) Stitch an arm injury.
(c) Stitch a leg injury.
(d) Child birth.

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

7. In The Pump Handle, how many directives did Benjamin Hall issue for the three-man committee formed to investigate the Broad Street outbreak?
(a) 39.
(b) 45.
(c) 60.
(d) 50.

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

9. In All Smell is Disease, when did Benjamin become president of the Board of Health?
(a) July 8.
(b) August 29.
(c) July 11.
(d) August 18.

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

11. In All Smell is Disease, how did John Snow spend September 5?
(a) Analyzing water samples.
(b) Treating patients.
(c) Taking water samples to a chemist.
(d) Looking for patterns.

12. In The Ghost Map when the news sewers were construction, how much did it cost to build the main intercepting sewers?
(a) 3 million pounds.
(b) 2 million pounds.
(c) 5 million pounds.
(d) 4 million pounds.

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

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

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) First hours.
(d) 12 hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Ghost Map, who was sometimes credited instead of Snow for the discovery of the waterborne theory of the dispersion of cholera?

2. When did Whitehead believe that paitent zero would have fallen ill?

3. When did Snow first share his map at a meeting of the Epidemiological Society?

4. In The Ghost Map, when did the "Daily News" accuse the sewer builders of unearthing human remains?

5. In The Pump Handle, how long did the deaths in Soho continue after the pump handle was removed?

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