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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. In The Night-Soil Men, what did the toshers wear?

2. Who designed Regent Street to connect Marylebone Park wit the Prince Regent's new home at Carlton House?

3. How old was Henry Whitehead in Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue?

4. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, when was the first time that cholera was known to exist on British soil?

5. By September 4, how many workers at the Lion Brewery had contracted cholera?

Short Essay Questions

1. In That Is to Say, Jo Has Not Yet Died, what did Sir Richard Phillips predict in 1813 about London?

2. In The Night-Soil Men, how were the poor buried at the pauper burial ground at St. Bride's?

3. How did the growth of tea drinkers help population growth?

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

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

6. Why was the Broad Street Pump popular?

7. Why was the cholera outbreak in Golden Square unusual?

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

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

10. What were mortality rates in 1842?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When humans began to drink tea, lifespans increased. How did drinking tea keep people healthier, and what was the connection between drinking tea and longer lifespans?

Essay Topic 2

There were many theories to explain how cholera was spread. What were the two main theories, and why was the miasma theory accepted by most authorities in spite of evidence to the contrary?

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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