View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In The Ghost Map during the cholera outbreak in 1866, how many people had died by the end of August?
(a) 1,100.
(b) 2,500.
(c) About 3,000.
(d) More than 4,000.

2. When did Florence Nightingale write her "Notes on Nursing"?
(a) 1853.
(b) 1857.
(c) 1849.
(d) 1861.

3. How old was Snow when he died?
(a) 51.
(b) 39.
(c) 45.
(d) 62.

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

5. In 1846 what did Edwin Chadwick tell a parliamentary committee that the problem of London sewage was?
(a) The quantity.
(b) The bacteria.
(c) The smell.
(d) The contamination of water.

Short Answer Questions

1. In All Smell is Disease, when did Benjamin become president of the Board of Health?

2. By September 5, how many residents of the Golden Square neighborhood died in the last 5 days?

3. In The Ghost Map, when did Snow give testimony in Parliament on behalf of the "offensive Trades" (204)?

4. In Building the Case, how many quarts of Broad Street water did a boy tell Whitehead he had drunk from the Broad Street pump?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Henry Mayhew see waste recycling as a way of increasing population growth?

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

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

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

5. In The Ghost Map, what short-term impact might Snow's map have had?

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 874 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample