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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. How long of a pole did toshers carry in The Night-Soil Men?
(a) 7 foot.
(b) 5 foot.
(c) 8 foot.
(d) 6 foot.
2. 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?
(a) 10 oxen and 12 sheep.
(b) 20 oxen and 23 sheep.
(c) 5 oxen and 7 sheep.
(d) 2 oxen and 6 sheep.
3. In The Investigator, how many blocks were ravished by cholera?
(a) 8 square blocks.
(b) 3 square blocks.
(c) 7 square blocks.
(d) 5 square blocks.
4. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how long after the Lewis baby fell ill did life in Golden Square continue as usual?
(a) 2 days.
(b) 2 weeks.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 1 week.
5. In The Night-Soil Men, what hours did the night-soil men work?
(a) Midnight to 5 a.m.
(b) 1 a.m. to 6 a.m.
(c) 11 p.m. to 4 a.m.
(d) 10 p.m. to 3 a.m.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, with whom did Henry Whitehead share a room?
2. When Snow studied at Hunterian School of Medicine, how long did it take him to obtain his apothecary and surgeon's license?
3. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how many citizens were inmates at the St. James Workhouse?
4. How old was Snow when he read John Frank Newton's 1811 manifesto "The Return to Nature: A Defense of the Vegetable Regimen"?
5. When did Snow propose a theory that an agent that victims ingested was the cause of cholera?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was thought about cholera and the British way of life prior to 1831?
2. In That Is to Say, Jo Has Not Yet Died, what did Sir Richard Phillips predict in 1813 about London?
3. By Sunday morning, September 3, what was going on at the beginning of The Investigator?
4. In The Night-Soil Men, why did the invention of water closets have a bad effect on London's sewage problem?
5. How did the growth of tea drinkers help population growth?
6. Why was the Broad Street Pump popular?
7. Why was the introduction of ether as an anesthetic import in The Investigator?
8. How is cholera spread?
9. In The Investigator, who was the famous patient who chose Snow to administer chloroform during childbirth and why?
10. Why are the bacteria-driven processes of decomposition important?
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