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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 All Smell is Disease, how did John Snow spend September 5?

2. In Building the Case, what was the name of St. Luke's scripture reader?

3. In Building the Case, how many cholera patients were admitted to Middlesex Hospital?

4. In The Pump Handle, when did Snow give Whitehead a copy of his monograph?

5. In All Smell is Disease, how far back did the miasma theory date to?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Building the Case, how would residents of Cross Street get to the Broad Street pump?

2. In The Ghost Map, what did the first map look like that Snow created?

3. Through the new sewer system, how much waste was deposited into the Thames and what was the result?

4. In The Pump Handle, why did Whitehead have a crucial edge in the cholera investigation?

5. What was the Great Stink and how did it affect epidemic disease at the time?

6. Why was the pump handle removed on September 8?

7. How did Henry Mayhew see waste recycling as a way of increasing population growth?

8. Why was the removal of the pump handle on September 8 significant?

9. In Building the Case, why did residents in well-to-do neighborhoods believe that the outbreak of cholera took place among the poor?

10. How did Chadwick's career become the origin of the concept of "big government"? (113)

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

When the Board of Health was investigating the cholera outbreak, a document was written to instruct investigators. What were the conditions that the document stated would be investigated, and how did the way that the investigation was set up not allow for any theory to be correct other than the miasma theory?

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