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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. For what ailment did Snow administer chloroform to a patient on September 6?
(a) Stitch an arm injury.
(b) Child birth.
(c) Hemorrhoid removal.
(d) Stitch a leg injury.

2. When did Thomas Lewis become ill?
(a) September 7.
(b) September 6.
(c) September 8.
(d) September 5.

3. In Building the Case, how long does it take the V. cholerae bacteria to die off in distilled water?
(a) 3 hours.
(b) A matter of hours.
(c) Few days.
(d) 2 days.

4. In All Smell is Disease, how did John Snow spend September 5?
(a) Analyzing water samples.
(b) Treating patients.
(c) Looking for patterns.
(d) Taking water samples to a chemist.

5. In All Smell is Disease, how many people died in the cholera outbreak of 1848-1849?
(a) About 11,000.
(b) Nearly 15,000.
(c) 9,000.
(d) 7,500.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Pump Handle, when did Snow give Whitehead a copy of his monograph?

2. In The Ghost Map, in what publication did an unsigned editorial appear that lambasted Snow's waterborne theory of cholera?

3. 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?

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

5. When did Snow first share his map at a meeting of the Epidemiological Society?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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