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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 year was it?

2. During the epidemics of the late 1840s and 1850s, how many Londoners would typically die of cholera in a matter of weeks?

3. When did Snow earn his bachelor of medicine degree from the University of London?

4. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, what had been the temperature for several straight days?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is cholera spread?

3. What were mortality rates in 1842?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Henry Whitehead initially rejected Snow’s theory of how the cholera outbreak began. What were Whitehead’s objections to Snow’s theory, and how were his objections resolved so that he accepted Snow’s theory?

Essay Topic 3

After reading Snow’s monograph, Whitehead realized that there had to be an index case for the cholera outbreak. What was the index case, and why was finding the first case of cholera important in solving the cause of the outbreak?

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