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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. How long was the monograph titled "The Cholera in Benwick Street" that Whitehead wrote?
2. In The Pump Handle, as Whitehead tracked down residents who left the neighborhood, how many was he able to find?
3. In The Ghost Map, how many miles of sewers were constructed by Bazalgette and his team?
4. In The Pump Handle, among the 45 houses extending in all directions from the intersection of Broad and Cambridge streets, how many managed to survive the epidemic without losing a single resident?
5. In Building the Case, what did the proprietor of a coffee shop mix with Broad Street water and sell?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Henry Mayhew see waste recycling as a way of increasing population growth?
2. In Building the Case, how would residents of Cross Street get to the Broad Street pump?
3. In Building the Case, why did residents in well-to-do neighborhoods believe that the outbreak of cholera took place among the poor?
4. How did Chadwick's career become the origin of the concept of "big government"? (113)
5. In The Ghost Map, why was Edmund Cooper sent to investigate the Broad Street epidemic?
6. What was the Great Stink and how did it affect epidemic disease at the time?
7. In Building the Case, what was the law of diffusion of gases?
8. Why was the pump handle removed on September 8?
9. 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?
10. In All Smell is Disease, why might Henry Whitehead have believed that the cholera might be ending?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
The author referred to Snow as a polymath. What was a polymath, and how did Snow’s polymath of viewing the world not allow him to accept the miasma theory?
Essay Topic 3
After reading Snow’s monograph, Whitehead realized that there had to be an index case for the cholera outbreak. What was the index case, and why was finding the first case of cholera important in solving the cause of the outbreak?
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