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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, who were the proprietors of the Lion Brewery?

3. When did Edwin Chadwick publish his study of sanitation among the laboring classes?

4. How old was Snow when he died?

5. In Building the Case, when was the tailor on Cross Street and his 12-year-old son struck with cholera?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Building the Case, why did residents in well-to-do neighborhoods believe that the outbreak of cholera took place among the poor?

4. Why was it odd that the sewer-hunters had long lifespans and were rarely sick?

5. Why was the pump handle removed on September 8?

6. In Building the Case, what was the law of diffusion of gases?

7. In The Ghost Map, what short-term impact might Snow's map have had?

8. In The Ghost Map, what did the first map look like that Snow created?

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

10. In Building the Case, what finally persuaded authorities that cholera was waterborne?

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

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

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?

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