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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 Investigator in 1848 on what steamer did John Harnold work as a crewman?
(a) Elbe.
(b) Rosemarie.
(c) Hamburg.
(d) Labyrinth.

2. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how many animals would a slaughterhouse at the edge of Soho on Marshall Street kill per day on average?
(a) 10 oxen and 12 sheep.
(b) 5 oxen and 7 sheep.
(c) 20 oxen and 23 sheep.
(d) 2 oxen and 6 sheep.

3. In 1854, what was the population of London?
(a) 1 1/2 million.
(b) 3 million.
(c) 1 million.
(d) 2 1/2 million.

4. At the beginning of The Night-Soil Men, what river would the toshers wade through the muck of low tide?
(a) Lea.
(b) Cray.
(c) Darent.
(d) Thames.

5. In 1854, how long did some people complain that it took a letter to reach its destination in letters written to editors of newspapers?
(a) 7 hours.
(b) 6 hours.
(c) 5 hours.
(d) 8 hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how many workers did the Lion Brewery on Broad Street employ?

2. How old was Snow when he read John Frank Newton's 1811 manifesto "The Return to Nature: A Defense of the Vegetable Regimen"?

3. When were Sanskrit writings written that describe a cholera-like disease?

4. By September 4, how many workers at the Lion Brewery had contracted cholera?

5. How old was Snow when he apprenticed to a surgeon on Newcastle-on-Tyne?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was the Broad Street Pump popular?

2. In The Night-Soil Men, what type of neighborhood did Soho become in the years after the 1665 plague?

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

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

5. Who was John Snow?

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

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

8. By Sunday morning, September 3, what was going on at the beginning of The Investigator?

9. What did the night-soil men do and what were they paid?

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

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