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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 cases of cholera were reported on Saturday morning according to The Globe?
(a) 9 or 10.
(b) 11.
(c) 8.
(d) 7 or 8.

2. In Building the Case, of the 83 deaths recorded on Farr's list, how many of those were in houses that were closer to the Broad Street pump than any other water source?
(a) 80.
(b) 73.
(c) 67.
(d) 59.

3. In Building the Case, within how many days did a tailor on Cross Street and his children die?
(a) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

4. In All Smell is Disease, how many people died in the cholera outbreak of 1848-1849?
(a) 7,500.
(b) 9,000.
(c) About 11,000.
(d) Nearly 15,000.

5. In Building the Case, who were the proprietors of the Lion Brewery?
(a) Robert and David Smythe.
(b) Edward and John Huggins.
(c) Richard and Andrew Wyatt.
(d) Bryan and Peter Strothers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Building the Case, after how many hours after receiving Farr's early numbers, had Snow tracked down intimate details of behavior from surviving family and neighbors of more than 70 people?

2. When did Whitehead believe that paitent zero would have fallen ill?

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

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

5. In Building the Case, when was the tailor on Cross Street and his 12-year-old son struck with cholera?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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. In Building the Case, what did Snow learn about water at the Eley Brothers factory and the death of their mother?

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

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

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