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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. At number 10 Cross Street, who lived with a tailor in his single room in Building the Case?

2. In Building the Case, what did the proprietor of a coffee shop mix with Broad Street water and sell?

3. In Building the Case, how many quarts of Broad Street water did a boy tell Whitehead he had drunk from the Broad Street pump?

4. In All Smell is Disease, how did John Snow spend September 5?

5. In All Smell Is Disease, what was the lifespan of some of the men who worked in the sewers?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Diseases were a brake on human growth. How did cholera and other epidemics decimate populations, and how were they a brake on human growth?

Essay Topic 2

In The Ghost Map, John Snow became an investigator of the causes of cholera. How did Snow’s background, education, interests, and work make him an investigator?

Essay Topic 3

Finding pure water was always an issue for humans. Why did humans begin drinking alcohol rather than water, and how did the health benefits of drinking alcohol instead of contaminated water mitigate the health issues with drinking alcohol?

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