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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 had died in the last 24hours?
(a) 70.
(b) 55.
(c) 46.
(d) 63.

2. How old was Snow when he read John Frank Newton's 1811 manifesto "The Return to Nature: A Defense of the Vegetable Regimen"?
(a) 17.
(b) 12.
(c) 15.
(d) 20.

3. When long ago were composting pits used by the citizens of Knossos?
(a) 7,500 years.
(b) 4,500 years.
(c) 8,000 years.
(d) 4,000 years.

4. In The Investigator, in July 1849, how many people died on Thomas Street in Horsleydown?
(a) 11.
(b) Around 10.
(c) 9.
(d) About 12.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the year 1000, how many people lived in Rome?

2. By Sunday morning, how many people were on the edge of death?

3. In The Investigator in 1848 on what steamer did John Harnold work as a crewman?

4. Which of Charles Dickens' novels had scene a where a team of toshers took coins from a corpse?

5. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how man dogs did a man at 38 Silver Street keep in one room?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the cure for cholera?

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

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

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

7. Who was John Snow?

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

9. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, why did the author say that it was surprising how many livestock lived in densely packed neighborhood?

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

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