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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 Building the Case, who were the proprietors of the Lion Brewery?

2. In The Pump Handle, how many deaths did Whitehead say occurred at the model home on Peter Street?

3. In The Ghost Map during the cholera outbreak in 1866, how many people had died by the end of August?

4. In Building the Case, when did survivors who reported consuming large quantities of water from the Broad Street pump do their drinking?

5. In The Ghost Map, in what publication did an unsigned editorial appear that lambasted Snow's waterborne theory of cholera?

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. In The Pump Handle, why did Whitehead have a crucial edge in the cholera investigation?

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

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

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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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