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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 Pump Handle, how many cases of cholera were reported on Saturday morning according to The Globe?
(a) 7 or 8.
(b) 8.
(c) 11.
(d) 9 or 10.

2. When did Whitehead believe that paitent zero would have fallen ill?
(a) August 30.
(b) Around August 29.
(c) Around August 28.
(d) August 31.

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

4. In The Pump Handle, how many people did the author say were crowded into three city blocks?
(a) 250.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 600.
(d) 750.

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

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 Building the Case, of the 83 deaths recorded on Farr's list, how many of those were in houses that were closer to the Broad Street pump than any other water source?

3. In The Ghost Map during the cholera outbreak in 1866, how many people had died by the end of August?

4. In The Ghost Map, how many miles of sewers were constructed by Bazalgette and his team?

5. How long did it take after Pacini glimpsed bacteria in his microscope for others to make the same discovery?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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