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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 Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how many animals would a slaughterhouse at the edge of Soho on Marshall Street kill per day on average?

2. When was The Long Epidemiological Society founded?

3. Who was the first Englishman to die from cholera in Britain?

4. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how many workers did the Lion Brewery on Broad Street employ?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How is cholera spread?

2. What was thought about cholera and the British way of life prior to 1831?

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

4. What were mortality rates in 1842?

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

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

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

8. In The Investigator, who was the famous patient who chose Snow to administer chloroform during childbirth and why?

9. Why was the Broad Street Pump popular?

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

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

The author said it would be tempting to set Snow up as the solitary genius who discarded conventional wisdom and used his intellect to solve a problem. How did Snow solve the mystery of cholera transmission, and what does that reveal about the way that most intellectual breakthroughs occur?

Essay Topic 3

Johnson referred to London’s underclass of scavengers as the canary in a mine. Why did Johnson compare the scavengers to a canary in a mine, and how did scavengers in that role disprove the idea that exposure to odors caused cholera outbreaks?

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