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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) 2 weeks.
(b) About 4 days.
(c) 3 days.
(d) Another week.

2. In Building the Case, what did the proprietor of a coffee shop mix with Broad Street water and sell?
(a) Soup.
(b) Sherbet.
(c) Ice cream.
(d) Cookies.

3. In All Smell is Disease, according to Joseph Bazalgette, how many cesspools were abolished in about six years?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 35,000.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 20,000.

4. When did Whitehead believe that paitent zero would have fallen ill?
(a) Around August 29.
(b) Around August 28.
(c) August 30.
(d) August 31.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In The Ghost Map, when did John Snow begin working on his first map of the Broad Street outbreak?

3. As Whitehead conducted his investigation in The Pump Handle, how much did drinking from the Broad Street well increase a person's risk of infection?

4. In All Smell is Disease, up until what date was it illegal to discharge raw waste into the sewers?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What did one scholar testify before Parliament in 1864 about the value of London's sewage?

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, how would residents of Cross Street get to the Broad Street pump?

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

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

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

10. 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?

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