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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 many pages of "Sedgwick's Principles of Sanitary Science and Public Health" mention the Board of Health verdict of the Broad Street outbreak?

2. In The Ghost Map, how many miles of sewers were constructed by Bazalgette and his team?

3. In Building the Case, upon what skills did Snow's cholera theory ultimately depend?

4. In The Ghost Map when a new sewer system was designed, how many main lines were to run north of the Thames?

5. In All Smell is Disease, how many homes in 1849 were found to have offensive smells from bad drainage?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why was the removal of the pump handle on September 8 significant?

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

10. In All Smell is Disease, what one action did the Board of Health see was completed and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In The Ghost Map, the author compared the growth of London to a cancer. Why was the growth of London similar to the growth of cancer, and how did the growth have the same devastating effects that a cancer had?

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

There were many theories to explain how cholera was spread. What were the two main theories, and why was the miasma theory accepted by most authorities in spite of evidence to the contrary?

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