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

2. In Building the Case, what part of the body was affected by cholera?
(a) Small intestine.
(b) Respiratory system.
(c) Circulatory system.
(d) Cardiac system.

3. How long was the monograph titled "The Cholera in Benwick Street" that Whitehead wrote?
(a) 12 pages.
(b) 17 pages.
(c) 11 pages.
(d) 9 pages.

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

5. In Building the Case, what was the name of St. Luke's scripture reader?
(a) Martin Trevor.
(b) James Richardson.
(c) Peter Anderson.
(d) David Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of All Smell is Disease, how many people did Whitehead see recover?

2. In The Pump Handle, how many people living within 250 yards of the Broad Street pump died in less than two weeks?

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

4. In "Sedgwick's Principles of Sanitary Science and Public Health", how many pages are devoted to the Broad Street outbreak?

5. In The Ghost Map, when was the new sewer system mostly operational?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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 did the first map look like that Snow created?

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

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

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

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

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

10. In The Ghost Map, why was Edmund Cooper sent to investigate the Broad Street epidemic?

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