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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 as Snow survey the Golden Square neighborhood, how many deaths lay outside the boundary line of Snow's map?
2. In Building the Case, how long does it take the V. cholerae bacteria to die off in distilled water?
3. In The Ghost Map during the cholera outbreak in 1866, how many people had died by the end of August?
4. In The Pump Handle, when was the handle of the Broad Street pump removed?
5. In Building the Case, who were the proprietors of the Lion Brewery?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why was it odd that the sewer-hunters had long lifespans and were rarely sick?
2. 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?
3. In The Ghost Map, what short-term impact might Snow's map have had?
4. In The Ghost Map, why was Edmund Cooper sent to investigate the Broad Street epidemic?
5. In Building the Case, why did residents in well-to-do neighborhoods believe that the outbreak of cholera took place among the poor?
6. In Building the Case, what did Snow learn about water at the Eley Brothers factory and the death of their mother?
7. In All Smell is Disease, what one action did the Board of Health see was completed and why?
8. In The Pump Handle, why did Whitehead have a crucial edge in the cholera investigation?
9. How did Henry Mayhew see waste recycling as a way of increasing population growth?
10. In All Smell is Disease, why might Henry Whitehead have believed that the cholera might be ending?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
After reading Snow’s monograph, Whitehead realized that there had to be an index case for the cholera outbreak. What was the index case, and why was finding the first case of cholera important in solving the cause of the outbreak?
Essay Topic 2
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 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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