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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When was the first demonstration of ether in Boston?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1847.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1846.
2. When was Henry Whitehead offered a position at St. Luke's?
(a) 1847.
(b) 1851.
(c) 1849.
(d) 1853.
3. In The Night-Soil Men, how many corpses were packed into a burial ground in Islington?
(a) 55,000.
(b) 15,000.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 80,000.
4. By September 4, how many workers at the Eley Brothers factory had gotten cholera?
(a) 35.
(b) About 20.
(c) 18.
(d) More than 2 dozen.
5. What did John Snow's father do for a living?
(a) Laborer.
(b) Professor.
(c) Grocer.
(d) Blacksmith.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how man dogs did a man at 38 Silver Street keep in one room?
2. During the cholera outbreak of 1831, what group of individuals did Snow treat?
3. In 1842 in Bethnal Green was was the average life expectancy for the working poor?
4. At the beginning of the 1800s, how much tea was imported to England?
5. In The Investigator, in July 1849, how many people died on Thomas Street in Horsleydown?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is cholera spread?
2. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, why did the author say that it was surprising how many livestock lived in densely packed neighborhood?
3. What is the cure for cholera?
4. Why was the cholera outbreak in Golden Square unusual?
5. Why are the bacteria-driven processes of decomposition important?
6. In The Night-Soil Men, what type of specialists emerged to take care of waste removal?
7. In The Night-Soil Men, what type of neighborhood did Soho become in the years after the 1665 plague?
8. When and where was ether first introduced, and when was it first available in London?
9. In The Night-Soil Men, how were the poor buried at the pauper burial ground at St. Bride's?
10. Who was Henry Whitehead?
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