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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 1842 in Bethnal Green was was the average life expectancy for the working poor?

2. In The Investigator, when was the cholera outbreak that made curing cholera one of the most urgent medical riddles of the time?

3. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, what day of the week did the Eley brothers take a bottle of water from the Broad Street pump to their mother?

4. 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?

5. In 1842, what was the average age of death for the well-to-do male?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Who was Henry Whitehead?

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

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

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

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

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

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 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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