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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. How old was Snow when he apprenticed to a surgeon on Newcastle-on-Tyne?
(a) 17.
(b) 16.
(c) 15.
(d) 14.
2. By September 4, how many workers at the Eley Brothers factory had gotten cholera?
(a) 35.
(b) 18.
(c) About 20.
(d) More than 2 dozen.
3. In The Investigator, how many blocks were ravished by cholera?
(a) 3 square blocks.
(b) 8 square blocks.
(c) 5 square blocks.
(d) 7 square blocks.
4. In The Investigator, how old is John Snow?
(a) 51.
(b) 60.
(c) 42.
(d) 39.
5. At the beginning of The Night-Soil Men, what river would the toshers wade through the muck of low tide?
(a) Darent.
(b) Thames.
(c) Cray.
(d) Lea.
Short Answer Questions
1. In 1854, how long did some people complain that it took a letter to reach its destination in letters written to editors of newspapers?
2. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how long after the Lewis baby fell ill did life in Golden Square continue as usual?
3. When were Sanskrit writings written that describe a cholera-like disease?
4. When did doctors begin recommending chloroform for the discomfort of childbirth?
5. In 1842 in Bethnal Green was was the average life expectancy for the working poor?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who was John Snow?
2. What were mortality rates in 1842?
3. What was thought about cholera and the British way of life prior to 1831?
4. Why was the Broad Street Pump popular?
5. In The Night-Soil Men, what type of specialists emerged to take care of waste removal?
6. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, why did the author say that it was surprising how many livestock lived in densely packed neighborhood?
7. Why was the introduction of ether as an anesthetic import in The Investigator?
8. In That Is to Say, Jo Has Not Yet Died, what did Sir Richard Phillips predict in 1813 about London?
9. What is the cure for cholera?
10. How did the growth of tea drinkers help population growth?
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