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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 Pump Handle, how many people did the author say were crowded into three city blocks?
2. In All Smell is Disease, up until what date was it illegal to discharge raw waste into the sewers?
3. As Whitehead conducted his investigation in The Pump Handle, how much did drinking from the Broad Street well increase a person's risk of infection?
4. In The Ghost Map, who was sometimes credited instead of Snow for the discovery of the waterborne theory of the dispersion of cholera?
5. In The Ghost Map, when was the new sewer system mostly operational?
Short Essay Questions
1. In The Pump Handle, why did Whitehead have a crucial edge in the cholera investigation?
2. How did Hall's instructions to the three-man committee investigating the cholera outbreak in The Pump Handle, tilt the results?
3. 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?
4. Why was the pump handle removed on September 8?
5. In Building the Case, what did Snow discover that seemed to point to a reason why residents at 50 Poland Street and workers at the Lion Brewery did not contract cholera?
6. Through the new sewer system, how much waste was deposited into the Thames and what was the result?
7. In The Ghost Map, why was Edmund Cooper sent to investigate the Broad Street epidemic?
8. When and why would a tailor send one of his boys to get well water at the Broad Street pump in Building the Case?
9. In Building the Case, how would residents of Cross Street get to the Broad Street pump?
10. In All Smell is Disease, what one action did the Board of Health see was completed and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
After an extensive sewer system was installed, London no longer had cholera outbreaks. How did technology stop cholera outbreaks, and what role might technology play in solving future urban problems?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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