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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. In The Night-Soil Men, what hours did the night-soil men work?
(a) 1 a.m. to 6 a.m.
(b) 10 p.m. to 3 a.m.
(c) 11 p.m. to 4 a.m.
(d) Midnight to 5 a.m.

2. When did Thomas Latta come up with a water cure for cholera?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1784.
(c) 1841.
(d) 1832.

3. In That Is to Say, Jo Has Not Yet Died, who went up in a hot-air balloon to examine the entire city of London?
(a) Richard Andrews.
(b) Robert Phillips.
(c) David Watson.
(d) Henry Mayhew.

4. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, with whom did Susannah Eley share a bottle of water from the Broad Street pump?
(a) Neighbor.
(b) Cousin.
(c) Niece.
(d) Daughter.

5. When was Henry Whitehead offered a position at St. Luke's?
(a) 1853.
(b) 1851.
(c) 1849.
(d) 1847.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long of a pole did toshers carry in The Night-Soil Men?

2. When did Snow propose a theory that an agent that victims ingested was the cause of cholera?

3. In The Investigator, how old is John Snow?

4. In The Investigator, how many blocks were ravished by cholera?

5. In The Night-Soil Men, how many corpses were packed into a burial ground in Islington?

Short Essay Questions

1. In The Night-Soil Men, why did the invention of water closets have a bad effect on London's sewage problem?

2. In The Investigator, what device did Snow create with instrument maker Daniel Ferguson to control the dosage of ether?

3. In That Is to Say, Jo Has Not Yet Died, what did Sir Richard Phillips predict in 1813 about London?

4. In The Investigator, who was the famous patient who chose Snow to administer chloroform during childbirth and why?

5. How is cholera spread?

6. Who was John Snow?

7. In The Night-Soil Men, how were the poor buried at the pauper burial ground at St. Bride's?

8. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, why did the author say that it was surprising how many livestock lived in densely packed neighborhood?

9. How was the cholera outbreak that hit New York City reported in 1832, and how did the reports of the outbreak affect the city?

10. What was thought about cholera and the British way of life prior to 1831?

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