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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. What did Farr give Snow when he visited the Registrar-General's office?
(a) List of victims.
(b) Names of those who recovered.
(c) Names and address of those who died.
(d) Advance copies of the number calculated for the next week.

2. In The Ghost Map, in what publication did an unsigned editorial appear that lambasted Snow's waterborne theory of cholera?
(a) Daily Mail.
(b) The Lancet.
(c) The Times.
(d) The Daily Telegraph.

3. In The Ghost Map, when was there a horrible stench along the banks of the Thames?
(a) 1858.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1861.

4. In The Pump Handle, how long did the deaths in Soho continue after the pump handle was removed?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) About 4 days.
(c) Another week.
(d) 3 days.

5. In The Ghost Map, when did Snow suffer a stroke?
(a) July 3, 1858.
(b) August 10, 1858.
(c) June 10, 1858.
(d) May 11, 1858.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Building the Case, when was the tailor on Cross Street and his 12-year-old son struck with cholera?

2. In The Ghost Map, in 1854, how much of your neighborhood did the author say might die in London if you left town for a weekend?

3. What did the Board of Health have put on the streets in All Smell is Disease?

4. In The Pump Handle, as Whitehead tracked down residents who left the neighborhood, how many was he able to find?

5. In Building the Case, within how many days did a tailor on Cross Street and his children die?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Building the Case, what finally persuaded authorities that cholera was waterborne?

2. How did Hall's instructions to the three-man committee investigating the cholera outbreak in The Pump Handle, tilt the results?

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

4. In The Ghost Map, what short-term impact might Snow's map have had?

5. In All Smell is Disease, what one action did the Board of Health see was completed and why?

6. In The Pump Handle, what was discovered when a surveyor examined the cesspool at the base of 40 Broad?

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

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

9. In Building the Case, why did residents in well-to-do neighborhoods believe that the outbreak of cholera took place among the poor?

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

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