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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 when a new sewer system was designed, how many main lines were to run north of the Thames?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

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

3. In Building the Case, how many quarts of water did a girl say she had drunk from the Broad Street pump during her successful attempt to fight off the disease?
(a) 2.
(b) 17.
(c) 15.
(d) 9.

4. In All Smell is Disease, what did the records Farr showed Snow reveal about the number of deaths in Soho between Thursday and Saturday?
(a) 86.
(b) 78.
(c) 91.
(d) 83.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In Building the Case, how long does it take the V. cholerae bacteria to die off in distilled water?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. In Building the Case, how would residents of Cross Street get to the Broad Street pump?

8. 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?

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

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

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