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

3. In The Pump Handle, when was the handle of the Broad Street pump removed?

4. In The Ghost Map, when was there a horrible stench along the banks of the Thames?

5. In Building the Case, how far was a tailor on Cross Street from The Little Marlborough Street pump?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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. How did Chadwick's career become the origin of the concept of "big government"? (113)

9. In All Smell is Disease, why might Henry Whitehead have believed that the cholera might be ending?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Johnson referred to London’s underclass of scavengers as the canary in a mine. Why did Johnson compare the scavengers to a canary in a mine, and how did scavengers in that role disprove the idea that exposure to odors caused cholera outbreaks?

Essay Topic 2

London was one of the largest cities in the world in the 1800s. What problems were caused by overpopulation in London, and what connections were there between overpopulation and epidemics?

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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