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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 1850, how many gallons of water a day were used by the average London household?
2. When did Snow propose a theory that an agent that victims ingested was the cause of cholera?
3. In The Night-Soil Men, what did the toshers wear?
4. How long of a pole did toshers carry in The Night-Soil Men?
5. What did John Snow's father do for a living?
Short Essay Questions
1. In The Night-Soil Men, what type of neighborhood did Soho become in the years after the 1665 plague?
2. In The Night-Soil Men, who were the toshers and what did they do?
3. In The Night-Soil Men, what type of specialists emerged to take care of waste removal?
4. In That Is to Say, Jo Has Not Yet Died, what did Sir Richard Phillips predict in 1813 about London?
5. Why are the bacteria-driven processes of decomposition important?
6. What did the night-soil men do and what were they paid?
7. By Sunday morning, September 3, what was going on at the beginning of The Investigator?
8. In The Investigator, what device did Snow create with instrument maker Daniel Ferguson to control the dosage of ether?
9. In The Night-Soil Men, why did the invention of water closets have a bad effect on London's sewage problem?
10. Why was the cholera outbreak in Golden Square unusual?
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
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?
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