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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) 1841.
(b) 1839.
(c) 1840.
(d) 1838.

2. In The Investigator, when was the cholera outbreak that made curing cholera one of the most urgent medical riddles of the time?
(a) 1851-1852.
(b) 1853-1854.
(c) 1846-1847.
(d) 1848-1849.

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

4. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how man dogs did a man at 38 Silver Street keep in one room?
(a) 27.
(b) 8.
(c) 3.
(d) 11.

5. When did doctors begin recommending chloroform for the discomfort of childbirth?
(a) 1870s.
(b) 1860s.
(c) 1850s.
(d) 1840s.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was The Long Epidemiological Society founded?

2. 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?

3. How long did Queen Victoria inhale chloroform when she had her eighth child?

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

5. How long of a pole did toshers carry in The Night-Soil Men?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why was the cholera outbreak in Golden Square unusual?

4. In The Investigator, what device did Snow create with instrument maker Daniel Ferguson to control the dosage of ether?

5. Who was Henry Whitehead?

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

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

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

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

10. On September 4, what groups of people were spared from the cholera outbreak?

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