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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 Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how long after the Lewis baby fell ill did life in Golden Square continue as usual?

2. How long did Queen Victoria inhale chloroform when she had her eighth child?

3. How old was Snow when he read John Frank Newton's 1811 manifesto "The Return to Nature: A Defense of the Vegetable Regimen"?

4. Which of Charles Dickens' novels had scene a where a team of toshers took coins from a corpse?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was the Broad Street Pump popular?

2. What is the cure for cholera?

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

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

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

6. Who was John Snow?

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

8. On September 4, what groups of people were spared from the cholera outbreak?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Henry Whitehead made vital contributions to the investigation of the cholera outbreak in 1854. What were his contributions, and how did his contributions influence authorities to accept the waterborne theory of cholera?

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

Snow persuaded authorities to remove the Broad Street pump handle. What did removing the handle symbolize, and how was removing the handle a turning point in history?

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