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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 The Ghost Map, when was there a horrible stench along the banks of the Thames?

2. According to Mayhew in 1845, how many ships hauled animal manure to England?

3. In Building the Case, when was the tailor on Cross Street and his 12-year-old son struck with cholera?

4. In The Pump Handle, for what age children was getting water from the Broad Street pump a common chore?

5. In All Smell is Disease, how many homes in 1849 were found to have offensive smells from bad drainage?

Short Essay Questions

1. In All Smell is Disease, why might Henry Whitehead have believed that the cholera might be ending?

2. In The Ghost Map, what short-term impact might Snow's map have had?

3. How did Hall's instructions to the three-man committee investigating the cholera outbreak in The Pump Handle, tilt the results?

4. In Building the Case, what did Snow learn about water at the Eley Brothers factory and the death of their mother?

5. In Building the Case, what was the law of diffusion of gases?

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

7. In The Pump Handle, what was discovered when a surveyor examined the cesspool at the base of 40 Broad?

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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