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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. How long did Thomas Lewis fight the disease before dying?

2. In Building the Case, what was the career of St. Luke's scripture reader?

3. On September 6, to how many patients did Snow deliver chloroform?

4. When did Whitehead believe that paitent zero would have fallen ill?

5. What did Farr give Snow when he visited the Registrar-General's office?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Through the new sewer system, how much waste was deposited into the Thames and what was the result?

4. 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?

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

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

7. When and why would a tailor send one of his boys to get well water at the Broad Street pump in Building the Case?

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

9. How did Whitehead and Snow begin working together in The Pump Handle?

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

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

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 3

The author believes that there are many benefits to urban living. What benefits does the author see that result from urban living, and how do these benefits benefit humans and the planet?

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