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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. According to Mayhew in 1845, how many ships hauled animal manure to England?
2. In The Pump Handle, when did Snow give Whitehead a copy of his monograph?
3. In Building the Case, what was the name of St. Luke's scripture reader?
4. How long did it take after Pacini glimpsed bacteria in his microscope for others to make the same discovery?
5. In The Ghost Map when a new sewer system was designed, how many main lines were to run north of the Thames?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. How did Chadwick's career become the origin of the concept of "big government"? (113)
3. Why was it odd that the sewer-hunters had long lifespans and were rarely sick?
4. In The Pump Handle, why did Whitehead have a crucial edge in the cholera investigation?
5. In Building the Case, what was the law of diffusion of gases?
6. Why was the removal of the pump handle on September 8 significant?
7. In Building the Case, what finally persuaded authorities that cholera was waterborne?
8. In All Smell is Disease, what one action did the Board of Health see was completed and why?
9. How did Henry Mayhew see waste recycling as a way of increasing population growth?
10. In The Ghost Map, why was Edmund Cooper sent to investigate the Broad Street epidemic?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The author referred to Snow as a polymath. What was a polymath, and how did Snow’s polymath of viewing the world not allow him to accept the miasma theory?
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
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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