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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, with whom did Henry Whitehead share a room?

2. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how man dogs did a man at 38 Silver Street keep in one room?

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. How old was Henry Whitehead in Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the cure for cholera?

2. Why was the Broad Street Pump popular?

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

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

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

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

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. What was thought about cholera and the British way of life prior to 1831?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

There were many theories to explain how cholera was spread. What were the two main theories, and why was the miasma theory accepted by most authorities in spite of evidence to the contrary?

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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