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

2. When was Edwin Chadwick appointed to the Poor Law Commission?

3. In The Ghost Map, when did John Snow begin working on his first map of the Broad Street outbreak?

4. In The Ghost Map, when did Snow give testimony in Parliament on behalf of the "offensive Trades" (204)?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was the removal of the pump handle on September 8 significant?

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

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

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

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

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

7. In The Ghost Map, why was Edmund Cooper sent to investigate the Broad Street epidemic?

8. 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?

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

10. What did one scholar testify before Parliament in 1864 about the value of London's sewage?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Victorian medicine was still a developing field in 1854. What relationship was there between medicine and the scientific method in 1854? How did that affect the care of patients and treatment of diseases?

Essay Topic 3

Henry Whitehead made vital contributions to the investigation of the cholera outbreak in 1854. What were his contributions, and how did his contributions influence authorities to accept the waterborne theory of cholera?

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