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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 All Smell is Disease, how many homes in 1849 were found to have offensive smells from bad drainage?
(a) 15,000.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 7,000.
(d) 3,000.

2. How many pages of "Sedgwick's Principles of Sanitary Science and Public Health" mention the Board of Health verdict of the Broad Street outbreak?
(a) None.
(b) 3.
(c) A couple.
(d) 2.

3. According to Mayhew in 1845, how many ships hauled animal manure to England?
(a) 311.
(b) 683.
(c) 549.
(d) 281.

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

5. In The Pump Handle, when was the handle of the Broad Street pump removed?
(a) Friday morning.
(b) Thursday afternoon.
(c) Thursday night.
(d) Friday afternoon.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Building the Case, what did the proprietor of a coffee shop mix with Broad Street water and sell?

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

3. How old was Snow when he died?

4. When did Whitehead believe that paitent zero would have fallen ill?

5. In Building the Case, who were the proprietors of the Lion Brewery?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Why was it odd that the sewer-hunters had long lifespans and were rarely sick?

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

5. How did Whitehead and Snow begin working together in The Pump Handle?

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

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

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

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

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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