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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, how many cholera patients were admitted to Middlesex Hospital?
(a) About 130.
(b) 125.
(c) More than 120.
(d) 145.

2. When was Edwin Chadwick appointed to the Poor Law Commission?
(a) 1829.
(b) 1832.
(c) 1827.
(d) 1831.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Building the Case, when did survivors who reported consuming large quantities of water from the Broad Street pump do their drinking?

2. When did Thomas Lewis become ill?

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, within how many days did a tailor on Cross Street and his children die?

5. In Building the Case, what part of the body was affected by cholera?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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