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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 chapter that takes place on September 4, what corpses were disturbed when the new sewers were built?

2. In The Night-Soil Men, what did the pure-finders collect?

3. In 1854, how long did some people complain that it took a letter to reach its destination in letters written to editors of newspapers?

4. About how many people were part of the London scavengers in The Night-Soil Men?

5. In The Investigator, in July 1849, how many people died on Thomas Street in Horsleydown?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What did the night-soil men do and what were they paid?

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

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

7. What is the cure for cholera?

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

9. What were mortality rates in 1842?

10. When and where was ether first introduced, and when was it first available in London?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Henry Whitehead made vital contributions to the investigation of the cholera outbreak in 1854. What were his contributions, and how did his contributions influence authorities to accept the waterborne theory of cholera?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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