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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 Ghost Map, when did Snow suffer a stroke?

2. In All Smell is Disease, according to Joseph Bazalgette, how many cesspools were abolished in about six years?

3. What did Farr give Snow when he visited the Registrar-General's office?

4. In All Smell is Disease, how many people died in the cholera outbreak of 1848-1849?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

7. How did Henry Mayhew see waste recycling as a way of increasing population growth?

8. 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?

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

10. In Building the Case, what was the law of diffusion of gases?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Johnson uses imagery to help readers imagine what London and the cholera outbreak were like. How does Johnson’s use of imagery help readers understand the times and problems that people faced?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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