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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did Thomas Lewis fight the disease before dying?
(a) 9 days.
(b) 3 days.
(c) 5 days.
(d) 11 days.

2. 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.

3. In The Ghost Map, in what publication did an unsigned editorial appear that lambasted Snow's waterborne theory of cholera?
(a) The Daily Telegraph.
(b) The Times.
(c) Daily Mail.
(d) The Lancet.

4. In Building the Case, how long does it take the V. cholerae bacteria to die off in distilled water?
(a) Few days.
(b) 2 days.
(c) 3 hours.
(d) A matter of hours.

5. 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) 60.
(c) 50.
(d) 45.

6. In The Ghost Map, who was sometimes credited instead of Snow for the discovery of the waterborne theory of the dispersion of cholera?
(a) William Farr.
(b) Benjamin Hall.
(c) William Budd.
(d) John Sutherland.

7. 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) 3.
(b) A couple.
(c) None.
(d) 2.

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

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

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

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

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

13. In The Ghost Map, how many days after suffering a stroke, did Snow die?
(a) 1.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

14. 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) 59.
(b) 67.
(c) 73.
(d) 80.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Building the Case, how far was a tailor on Cross Street from The Little Marlborough Street pump?

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

4. In All Smell is Disease, how far back did the miasma theory date to?

5. What did Farr give Snow when he visited the Registrar-General's office?

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