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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, what part of the body was affected by cholera?

2. In Building the Case, within how many days did a tailor on Cross Street and his children die?

3. In Building the Case, what did the proprietor of a coffee shop mix with Broad Street water and sell?

4. In 1846 what did Edwin Chadwick tell a parliamentary committee that the problem of London sewage was?

5. How long was the monograph titled "The Cholera in Benwick Street" that Whitehead wrote?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why was it odd that the sewer-hunters had long lifespans and were rarely sick?

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. In The Ghost Map, what short-term impact might Snow's map have had?

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

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

8. What was the Great Stink and how did it affect epidemic disease at the time?

9. In The Ghost Map, what did the first map look like that Snow created?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author believes that there are many benefits to urban living. What benefits does the author see that result from urban living, and how do these benefits benefit humans and the planet?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

When the Board of Health was investigating the cholera outbreak, a document was written to instruct investigators. What were the conditions that the document stated would be investigated, and how did the way that the investigation was set up not allow for any theory to be correct other than the miasma theory?

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