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

2. When was The Long Epidemiological Society founded?
(a) 1849.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1851.
(d) 1850.

3. When was Henry Whitehead offered a position at St. Luke's?
(a) 1851.
(b) 1853.
(c) 1847.
(d) 1849.

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?
(a) David Watson.
(b) Robert Phillips.
(c) Henry Mayhew.
(d) Richard Andrews.

5. In 1842 in Bethnal Green was was the average life expectancy for the working poor?
(a) 21.
(b) 16.
(c) 19.
(d) 34.

Short Answer Questions

1. By Sunday morning, how many people had died in the last 24hours?

2. Who was the first Englishman to die from cholera in Britain?

3. In the mid-1800s, how many firms supplied water to London?

4. In That Is To Say, Jo Has Not Yet Died, how long did it take the newapapers to report the cholera outbreak?

5. During the cholera outbreak of 1831, what group of individuals did Snow treat?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In The Investigator, who was the famous patient who chose Snow to administer chloroform during childbirth and why?

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

6. On September 4, what did Whitehead hear residents saying about the cause of the cholera outbreak?

7. Who was John Snow?

8. How was the cholera outbreak that hit New York City reported in 1832, and how did the reports of the outbreak affect the city?

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

10. Who was Henry Whitehead?

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