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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, how many quarts of Broad Street water did a boy tell Whitehead he had drunk from the Broad Street pump?
(a) 10.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

2. In Building the Case, when did survivors who reported consuming large quantities of water from the Broad Street pump do their drinking?
(a) After Tuesday.
(b) After Monday.
(c) After Saturday.
(d) After Sunday.

3. In All Smell is Disease, when did Benjamin become president of the Board of Health?
(a) August 29.
(b) July 11.
(c) July 8.
(d) August 18.

4. How old was Snow when he died?
(a) 39.
(b) 62.
(c) 45.
(d) 51.

5. In Building the Case, upon what skills did Snow's cholera theory ultimately depend?
(a) Physician.
(b) Inventor.
(c) Sociologist.
(d) Researcher.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Pump Handle, how many directives did Benjamin Hall issue for the three-man committee formed to investigate the Broad Street outbreak?

2. In All Smell is Disease, according to Joseph Bazalgette, how many cesspools were abolished in about six years?

3. By September 5, how many residents of the Golden Square neighborhood died in the last 5 days?

4. In The Ghost Map when the news sewers were construction, how much did it cost to build the main intercepting sewers?

5. In The Pump Handle, when did the board of governors of St. James Parish hold an emergency meeting?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why was the pump handle removed on September 8?

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

4. In Building the Case, what about the way that cholera affected the human body led Snow to believe that cholera was ingested and not inhaled?

5. In The Ghost Map, why was Edmund Cooper sent to investigate the Broad Street epidemic?

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

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

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

10. What did one scholar testify before Parliament in 1864 about the value of London's sewage?

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