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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, after how many hours after receiving Farr's early numbers, had Snow tracked down intimate details of behavior from surviving family and neighbors of more than 70 people?
(a) 24.
(b) 30.
(c) 36.
(d) 18.

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

3. How long did Thomas Lewis fight the disease before dying?
(a) 9 days.
(b) 11 days.
(c) 5 days.
(d) 3 days.

4. In All Smell is Disease, how far back did the miasma theory date to?
(a) Third century B.C.
(b) Fourth century A.D.
(c) 312 A.D.
(d) 104 B.C.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In All Smell is Disease, how did John Snow spend September 5?

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?

3. In The Pump Handle, for what age children was getting water from the Broad Street pump a common chore?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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