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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. When did cholera first appear in New York City?

2. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, when was the first time that cholera was known to exist on British soil?

3. When did Thomas and Sarah Lewis's infant daughter become sick?

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

5. When Snow studied at Hunterian School of Medicine, how long did it take him to obtain his apothecary and surgeon's license?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was the Broad Street Pump popular?

2. Who was John Snow?

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

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

5. In The Night-Soil Men, what type of specialists emerged to take care of waste removal?

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

7. How did the growth of tea drinkers help population growth?

8. What were mortality rates in 1842?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Finding pure water was always an issue for humans. Why did humans begin drinking alcohol rather than water, and how did the health benefits of drinking alcohol instead of contaminated water mitigate the health issues with drinking alcohol?

Essay Topic 2

London was one of the largest cities in the world in the 1800s. What problems were caused by overpopulation in London, and what connections were there between overpopulation and epidemics?

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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