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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. By Sunday morning, how many people were on the edge of death?
(a) Hundreds.
(b) 105.
(c) Thousands.
(d) 300.
2. By the end of the 1800s, how much teas was imported to England?
(a) 15,000 tons.
(b) 13,000 tons.
(c) 9,000 tons.
(d) 11,000 tons.
3. In That Is To Say, Jo Has Not Yet Died, how long did it take the newapapers to report the cholera outbreak?
(a) 2 days.
(b) 4 days.
(c) 5 days.
(d) 3 days.
4. In The Night-Soil Men, what did the pure-finders collect?
(a) Rat feces.
(b) Horse feces.
(c) Dog feces.
(d) Human feces.
5. When did Snow propose a theory that an agent that victims ingested was the cause of cholera?
(a) 1849.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1851.
(d) 1850.
Short Answer Questions
1. How old was Snow when he read John Frank Newton's 1811 manifesto "The Return to Nature: A Defense of the Vegetable Regimen"?
2. In 1854, where was the scientist from who discovered a small comma-shaped organism in the intestinal mucosa of a cholera victim?
3. When was the first demonstration of ether in Boston?
4. In That Is to Say, Jo Has Not Yet Died, who went up in a hot-air balloon to examine the entire city of London?
5. In The Investigator, in July 1849, how many people died on Thomas Street in Horsleydown?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who was Henry Whitehead?
2. Why was the Broad Street Pump popular?
3. In The Night-Soil Men, who were the toshers and what did they do?
4. By Sunday morning, September 3, what was going on at the beginning of The Investigator?
5. In The Night-Soil Men, how were the poor buried at the pauper burial ground at St. Bride's?
6. When and where was ether first introduced, and when was it first available in London?
7. On September 4, what groups of people were spared from the cholera outbreak?
8. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, why did the author say that it was surprising how many livestock lived in densely packed neighborhood?
9. What is the cure for cholera?
10. What were mortality rates in 1842?
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