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

2. By September 4, how many workers at the Eley Brothers factory had gotten cholera?
(a) About 20.
(b) 18.
(c) More than 2 dozen.
(d) 35.

3. How long did London remain the manufacturing center of England?
(a) Until 1835.
(b) Until 1850.
(c) Until 1855.
(d) Until 1845.

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

5. How long of a pole did toshers carry in The Night-Soil Men?
(a) 7 foot.
(b) 8 foot.
(c) 6 foot.
(d) 5 foot.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1854, where was the scientist from who discovered a small comma-shaped organism in the intestinal mucosa of a cholera victim?

2. On September 4, in the three days since the outbreak, how many residents of well-to-do houses had died?

3. Where was St. Luke's Church located in Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue?

4. By Sunday morning, how many people were on the edge of death?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was the cholera outbreak in Golden Square unusual?

2. What were mortality rates in 1842?

3. How did the growth of tea drinkers help population growth?

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

5. Why are the bacteria-driven processes of decomposition important?

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

7. Who was Henry Whitehead?

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

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

10. What is the cure for cholera?

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