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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. In Building the Case, what was the career of St. Luke's scripture reader?
(a) Grenadier guard.
(b) Grocer.
(c) Butcher.
(d) Professor.

2. In The Pump Handle, how many deaths did Whitehead say occurred at the model home on Peter Street?
(a) 17.
(b) 5.
(c) 21.
(d) 12.

3. In Building the Case, how many cholera patients were admitted to Middlesex Hospital?
(a) 125.
(b) 145.
(c) About 130.
(d) More than 120.

4. When Whitehead research the records, how long did he discover that the Lewis baby was sick before she died?
(a) 3 days.
(b) 2 days.
(c) 5 days.
(d) 4 days.

5. In The Pump Handle, when did the board of governors of St. James Parish hold an emergency meeting?
(a) Friday night.
(b) Tuesday night.
(c) Thursday night.
(d) Wednesday night.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Ghost Map, when was the new sewer system mostly operational?

2. At the beginning of All Smell is Disease, how many people did Whitehead see recover?

3. In The Pump Handle, among the 45 houses extending in all directions from the intersection of Broad and Cambridge streets, how many managed to survive the epidemic without losing a single resident?

4. In Building the Case as Snow survey the Golden Square neighborhood, how many deaths lay outside the boundary line of Snow's map?

5. In Building the Case, how far was a tailor on Cross Street from The Little Marlborough Street pump?

Short Essay Questions

1. In The Pump Handle, why did Whitehead have a crucial edge in the cholera investigation?

2. In All Smell is Disease, why might Henry Whitehead have believed that the cholera might be ending?

3. When and why would a tailor send one of his boys to get well water at the Broad Street pump in Building the Case?

4. How did Henry Mayhew see waste recycling as a way of increasing population growth?

5. In Building the Case, what did Snow learn about water at the Eley Brothers factory and the death of their mother?

6. How did Chadwick's career become the origin of the concept of "big government"? (113)

7. Why was the removal of the pump handle on September 8 significant?

8. What was the Great Stink and how did it affect epidemic disease at the time?

9. In Building the Case, what was the law of diffusion of gases?

10. In Building the Case, what did Snow discover that seemed to point to a reason why residents at 50 Poland Street and workers at the Lion Brewery did not contract cholera?

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