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

2. What did John Snow's father do for a living?
(a) Professor.
(b) Grocer.
(c) Laborer.
(d) Blacksmith.

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

4. When did the Earl of Craven purchase a block of land called Soho Field?
(a) 1594.
(b) 1709.
(c) 1811.
(d) 1665.

5. When did Snow's paper on the use of arsenic in the preservation of cadavers appeared in "The Lancet"?
(a) 1839.
(b) 1840.
(c) 1841.
(d) 1838.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Investigator in 1848 on what steamer did John Harnold work as a crewman?

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

3. In 1851 in the subdistrict of Berwick Street, how many people were there per acre of land?

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

5. When did Queen Victoria decide to give chloroform a try?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. On September 4, what groups of people were spared from the cholera outbreak?

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

5. Who was Henry Whitehead?

6. What is the cure for cholera?

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

8. How is cholera spread?

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

10. On September 4, what did Whitehead hear residents saying about the cause of the cholera outbreak?

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