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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 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?
(a) 15%.
(b) 5%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 10%.

2. 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) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 1.
(d) 10.

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

4. What did the Board of Health have put on the streets in All Smell is Disease?
(a) Water and bleach.
(b) Chloride of lime.
(c) Bleach.
(d) Salt.

5. In All Smell is Disease, according to Joseph Bazalgette, how many cesspools were abolished in about six years?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 30,000.
(c) 35,000.
(d) 25,000.

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 1843, where did a proposal want to have cast-iron sewers transport waste?

3. In The Ghost Map, when did the "Daily News" accuse the sewer builders of unearthing human remains?

4. How old was Snow when he died?

5. How long was the monograph titled "The Cholera in Benwick Street" that Whitehead wrote?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Through the new sewer system, how much waste was deposited into the Thames and what was the result?

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

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

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

7. In The Ghost Map, what did the first map look like that Snow created?

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

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

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

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