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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 1976.
(c) 2003.
(d) 1998.

2. In "Sedgwick's Principles of Sanitary Science and Public Health", how many pages are devoted to the Broad Street outbreak?
(a) 12.
(b) 11.
(c) 10.
(d) 9.

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

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

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

6. When did Snow first share his map at a meeting of the Epidemiological Society?
(a) November.
(b) January.
(c) December.
(d) February.

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

8. In The Ghost Map when a new sewer system was designed, how many main lines were to run north of the Thames?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

9. In The Pump Handle, how many people living within 250 yards of the Broad Street pump died in less than two weeks?
(a) 550.
(b) 430.
(c) 610.
(d) 700.

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

11. In Building the Case, how many quarts of Broad Street water did a boy tell Whitehead he had drunk from the Broad Street pump?
(a) 3.
(b) 10.
(c) 1.
(d) 5.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In All Smell is Disease, how did John Snow spend September 5?

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

4. When did Edwin Chadwick publish his study of sanitation among the laboring classes?

5. In The Ghost Map, when was there a horrible stench along the banks of the Thames?

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