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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. At the beginning of The Night-Soil Men, what river would the toshers wade through the muck of low tide?

2. When did Queen Victoria decide to give chloroform a try?

3. When was the first demonstration of ether in Boston?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why was the introduction of ether as an anesthetic import in The Investigator?

4. What is the cure for cholera?

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

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

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

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

9. How is cholera spread?

10. What were mortality rates in 1842?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

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

When the Board of Health was investigating the cholera outbreak, a document was written to instruct investigators. What were the conditions that the document stated would be investigated, and how did the way that the investigation was set up not allow for any theory to be correct other than the miasma theory?

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