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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, in the three days since the outbreak, how many residents of well-to-do houses had died?

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

3. What did John Snow's father do for a living?

4. Which college did Henry Whitehead attend at Oxford?

5. By Sunday morning, how many people were on the edge of death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were mortality rates in 1842?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who was Henry Whitehead?

8. On September 4, what did Whitehead hear residents saying about the cause of the cholera outbreak?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Snow created a map to help show how the cholera spread. How was the map useful in persuading Whitehead and others regarding the waterborne theory of cholera, and how was the map instrumental in stopping the outbreak?

Essay Topic 2

Victorian medicine was still a developing field in 1854. What relationship was there between medicine and the scientific method in 1854? How did that affect the care of patients and treatment of diseases?

Essay Topic 3

The author believes that there are many benefits to urban living. What benefits does the author see that result from urban living, and how do these benefits benefit humans and the planet?

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