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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. On September 6, to how many patients did Snow deliver chloroform?
2. In Building the Case, of the 83 deaths recorded on Farr's list, how many of those were in houses that were closer to the Broad Street pump than any other water source?
3. How many pages of "Sedgwick's Principles of Sanitary Science and Public Health" mention the Board of Health verdict of the Broad Street outbreak?
4. In The Ghost Map, when was the new sewer system mostly operational?
5. In All Smell is Disease, what did the records Farr showed Snow reveal about the number of deaths in Soho between Thursday and Saturday?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Building the Case, why did residents in well-to-do neighborhoods believe that the outbreak of cholera took place among the poor?
2. What was the Great Stink and how did it affect epidemic disease at the time?
3. In Building the Case, how would residents of Cross Street get to the Broad Street pump?
4. Why was the pump handle removed on September 8?
5. In The Pump Handle, what was discovered when a surveyor examined the cesspool at the base of 40 Broad?
6. Why was the removal of the pump handle on September 8 significant?
7. In All Smell is Disease, why might Henry Whitehead have believed that the cholera might be ending?
8. In The Ghost Map, what short-term impact might Snow's map have had?
9. How did Chadwick's career become the origin of the concept of "big government"? (113)
10. How did Whitehead and Snow begin working together in The Pump Handle?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In The Ghost Map, the author compared the growth of London to a cancer. Why was the growth of London similar to the growth of cancer, and how did the growth have the same devastating effects that a cancer had?
Essay Topic 2
Johnson referred to London’s underclass of scavengers as the canary in a mine. Why did Johnson compare the scavengers to a canary in a mine, and how did scavengers in that role disprove the idea that exposure to odors caused cholera outbreaks?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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