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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Farr give Snow when he visited the Registrar-General's office?
(a) List of victims.
(b) Advance copies of the number calculated for the next week.
(c) Names of those who recovered.
(d) Names and address of those who died.

2. 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.

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

4. 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) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

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

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

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

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

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

10. In Building the Case, how many cholera patients were admitted to Middlesex Hospital?
(a) About 130.
(b) More than 120.
(c) 125.
(d) 145.

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

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

13. What did the Board of Health have put on the streets in All Smell is Disease?
(a) Water and bleach.
(b) Bleach.
(c) Salt.
(d) Chloride of lime.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. In All Smell is Disease, how many people died in the cholera outbreak of 1848-1849?

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

5. In Building the Case, what was the career of St. Luke's scripture reader?

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