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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 did Snow give testimony in Parliament on behalf of the "offensive Trades" (204)?
(a) 1857.
(b) 1855.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1854.

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

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

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

5. In Building the Case, how far was a tailor on Cross Street from The Little Marlborough Street pump?
(a) 1 block.
(b) 4 blocks.
(c) 2 blocks.
(d) 3 blocks.

6. 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) 67.
(b) 59.
(c) 73.
(d) 80.

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

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

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

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

11. When did Florence Nightingale write her "Notes on Nursing"?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1857.
(c) 1853.
(d) 1849.

12. In The Ghost Map, in 1854, how much of your neighborhood did the author say might die in London if you left town for a weekend?
(a) 15%.
(b) 5%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 10%.

13. In Building the Case, who were the proprietors of the Lion Brewery?
(a) Bryan and Peter Strothers.
(b) Richard and Andrew Wyatt.
(c) Edward and John Huggins.
(d) Robert and David Smythe.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In The Pump Handle, for what age children was getting water from the Broad Street pump a common chore?

4. In All Smell is Disease, how many homes in 1849 were found to have offensive smells from bad drainage?

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

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