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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, what day of the week did the Eley brothers take a bottle of water from the Broad Street pump to their mother?
(a) Thursday.
(b) Tuesday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Wednesday.

2. By September 4, how many workers at the Lion Brewery had contracted cholera?
(a) 15.
(b) 11.
(c) 20.
(d) 0.

3. When did Snow propose a theory that an agent that victims ingested was the cause of cholera?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1849.
(c) 1851.
(d) 1848.

4. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, what had been the temperature for several straight days?
(a) 80s.
(b) 90s.
(c) 70s.
(d) 60s.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About how many people were part of the London scavengers in The Night-Soil Men?

2. When long ago were composting pits used by the citizens of Knossos?

3. In The Investigator, in July 1849, how many people died on Thomas Street in Horsleydown?

4. 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?

5. In The Night-Soil Men, how far would a bone-picker travel?

Short Essay Questions

1. When and where was ether first introduced, and when was it first available in London?

2. Why was the Broad Street Pump popular?

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

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

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

6. How did Snow get test subjects for his work in The Investigator?

7. Who was John Snow?

8. In The Night-Soil Men, what type of specialists emerged to take care of waste removal?

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

10. What is the cure for cholera?

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