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

2. In The Ghost Map, who was sometimes credited instead of Snow for the discovery of the waterborne theory of the dispersion of cholera?
(a) William Budd.
(b) John Sutherland.
(c) William Farr.
(d) Benjamin Hall.

3. In The Ghost Map, when did John Snow begin working on his first map of the Broad Street outbreak?
(a) Spring 1855.
(b) Spring 1854.
(c) Fall 1854.
(d) Fall 1855.

4. When did Edwin Chadwick publish his study of sanitation among the laboring classes?
(a) 1852.
(b) 1841.
(c) 1840.
(d) 1842.

5. What did Farr give Snow when he visited the Registrar-General's office?
(a) Names and address of those who died.
(b) Advance copies of the number calculated for the next week.
(c) List of victims.
(d) Names of those who recovered.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Building the Case, how many quarts of water did a girl say she had drunk from the Broad Street pump during her successful attempt to fight off the disease?

2. In The Ghost Map, when the new sewer system was designed, when was sewage discharged into the Thames?

3. In The Ghost Map, how many miles of sewers were constructed by Bazalgette and his team?

4. How long did Thomas Lewis fight the disease before dying?

5. In All Smell is Disease, how did John Snow spend September 5?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In All Smell is Disease, why might Henry Whitehead have believed that the cholera might be ending?

3. 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?

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

5. In All Smell is Disease, what one action did the Board of Health see was completed and why?

6. Why was the pump handle removed on September 8?

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

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

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

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

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