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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, when was the first time that cholera was known to exist on British soil?
(a) 1743.
(b) 1797.
(c) 1826.
(d) 1831.

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

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

4. When did Queen Victoria decide to give chloroform a try?
(a) 1853.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1874.
(d) 1842.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Investigator, how many blocks were ravished by cholera?

2. 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?

3. Who designed Regent Street to connect Marylebone Park wit the Prince Regent's new home at Carlton House?

4. In 1854, what was the population of London?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why was the Broad Street Pump popular?

5. How is cholera spread?

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

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

8. Why was the introduction of ether as an anesthetic import in The Investigator?

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

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

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