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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 Building the Case, what was the career of St. Luke's scripture reader?
2. In The Ghost Map, when did the "Daily News" accuse the sewer builders of unearthing human remains?
3. In The Pump Handle, among the 45 houses extending in all directions from the intersection of Broad and Cambridge streets, how many managed to survive the epidemic without losing a single resident?
4. In Building the Case, upon what skills did Snow's cholera theory ultimately depend?
5. When Whitehead research the records, how long did he discover that the Lewis baby was sick before she died?
Short Essay Questions
1. In The Pump Handle, why did Whitehead have a crucial edge in the cholera investigation?
2. What did one scholar testify before Parliament in 1864 about the value of London's sewage?
3. In Building the Case, what about the way that cholera affected the human body led Snow to believe that cholera was ingested and not inhaled?
4. How did Whitehead and Snow begin working together in The Pump Handle?
5. In Building the Case, how would residents of Cross Street get to the Broad Street pump?
6. In Building the Case, why did residents in well-to-do neighborhoods believe that the outbreak of cholera took place among the poor?
7. How did Henry Mayhew see waste recycling as a way of increasing population growth?
8. In Building the Case, what did Snow discover that seemed to point to a reason why residents at 50 Poland Street and workers at the Lion Brewery did not contract cholera?
9. In The Pump Handle, what was discovered when a surveyor examined the cesspool at the base of 40 Broad?
10. How did Hall's instructions to the three-man committee investigating the cholera outbreak in The Pump Handle, tilt the results?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
After an extensive sewer system was installed, London no longer had cholera outbreaks. How did technology stop cholera outbreaks, and what role might technology play in solving future urban problems?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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