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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. On September 4, what did Whitehead hear residents blaming as the cause of the cholera outbreak?

2. In 1851 in the subdistrict of Berwick Street, how many people were there per acre of land?

3. At the beginning of the 1800s, how much tea was imported to England?

4. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how many sheep would the main livestock market at Smithfield regularly sell in two days?

5. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, with whom did Susannah Eley share a bottle of water from the Broad Street pump?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the bacteria-driven processes of decomposition important?

2. On September 4, what groups of people were spared from the cholera outbreak?

3. In The Night-Soil Men, why did the invention of water closets have a bad effect on London's sewage problem?

4. In The Night-Soil Men, what type of neighborhood did Soho become in the years after the 1665 plague?

5. By Sunday morning, September 3, what was going on at the beginning of The Investigator?

6. How did Snow get test subjects for his work in The Investigator?

7. How was the cholera outbreak that hit New York City reported in 1832, and how did the reports of the outbreak affect the city?

8. In The Investigator, what device did Snow create with instrument maker Daniel Ferguson to control the dosage of ether?

9. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, why did the author say that it was surprising how many livestock lived in densely packed neighborhood?

10. In The Night-Soil Men, what type of specialists emerged to take care of waste removal?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author referred to Snow as a polymath. What was a polymath, and how did Snow’s polymath of viewing the world not allow him to accept the miasma theory?

Essay Topic 2

Johnson uses imagery to help readers imagine what London and the cholera outbreak were like. How does Johnson’s use of imagery help readers understand the times and problems that people faced?

Essay Topic 3

Diseases were a brake on human growth. How did cholera and other epidemics decimate populations, and how were they a brake on human growth?

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