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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 The Ghost Map, when did the "Daily News" accuse the sewer builders of unearthing human remains?
2. In All Smell is Disease, how did John Snow spend September 5?
3. In The Ghost Map, when did Snow give testimony in Parliament on behalf of the "offensive Trades" (204)?
4. In The Pump Handle, when was the handle of the Broad Street pump removed?
5. In All Smell Is Disease, when was a study done that discovered that strong smells triggered activity in the amygdala and the ventral insula of the brain?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. Through the new sewer system, how much waste was deposited into the Thames and what was the result?
3. In The Ghost Map, what short-term impact might Snow's map have had?
4. How did Henry Mayhew see waste recycling as a way of increasing population growth?
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, how would residents of Cross Street get to the Broad Street pump?
7. In The Ghost Map, what did the first map look like that Snow created?
8. How did Chadwick's career become the origin of the concept of "big government"? (113)
9. In The Pump Handle, what was discovered when a surveyor examined the cesspool at the base of 40 Broad?
10. In Building the Case, what did Snow learn about water at the Eley Brothers factory and the death of their mother?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Johnson uses imagery to help readers imagine what London and the cholera outbreak were like. How does Johnson’s use of imagery help readers understand the times and problems that people faced?
Essay Topic 2
Henry Whitehead initially rejected Snow’s theory of how the cholera outbreak began. What were Whitehead’s objections to Snow’s theory, and how were his objections resolved so that he accepted Snow’s theory?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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