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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In All Smell Is Disease, when was a study done that discovered that strong smells triggered activity in the amygdala and the ventral insula of the brain?
(a) 2001.
(b) 2003.
(c) 1998.
(d) 1976.

2. In Building the Case as Snow survey the Golden Square neighborhood, how many deaths lay outside the boundary line of Snow's map?
(a) 10.
(b) 18.
(c) 15.
(d) 5.

3. In The Ghost Map, in 1854, how much of your neighborhood did the author say might die in London if you left town for a weekend?
(a) 5%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 15%.

4. How many pages of "Sedgwick's Principles of Sanitary Science and Public Health" mention the Board of Health verdict of the Broad Street outbreak?
(a) 2.
(b) None.
(c) A couple.
(d) 3.

5. In Building the Case, within how many days did a tailor on Cross Street and his children die?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

6. In The Pump Handle, when did Snow give Whitehead a copy of his monograph?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1854.
(c) 1855.
(d) 1857.

7. In Building the Case, when did survivors who reported consuming large quantities of water from the Broad Street pump do their drinking?
(a) After Tuesday.
(b) After Sunday.
(c) After Saturday.
(d) After Monday.

8. In The Ghost Map when a new sewer system was designed, how many main lines were to run north of the Thames?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

9. In The Pump Handle, when was the handle of the Broad Street pump removed?
(a) Friday morning.
(b) Thursday night.
(c) Friday afternoon.
(d) Thursday afternoon.

10. When did Thomas Lewis become ill?
(a) September 5.
(b) September 7.
(c) September 8.
(d) September 6.

11. During the Great Stink along the Thames in The Ghost Map, how did the rates of death from epidemic disease rise or fall?
(a) There was a 5% decrease in deaths.
(b) They rose a great deal.
(c) There was a 20% increase in deaths.
(d) They were normal.

12. How old was Snow when he died?
(a) 51.
(b) 39.
(c) 62.
(d) 45.

13. In All Smell is Disease, according to Joseph Bazalgette, how many cesspools were abolished in about six years?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 30,000.
(c) 35,000.
(d) 25,000.

14. As Whitehead conducted his investigation in The Pump Handle, how much did drinking from the Broad Street well increase a person's risk of infection?
(a) 5 times.
(b) 8 times.
(c) 7 times.
(d) 4 times.

15. In The Ghost Map, who was sometimes credited instead of Snow for the discovery of the waterborne theory of the dispersion of cholera?
(a) John Sutherland.
(b) Benjamin Hall.
(c) William Farr.
(d) William Budd.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Building the Case, after how many hours after receiving Farr's early numbers, had Snow tracked down intimate details of behavior from surviving family and neighbors of more than 70 people?

2. How long did it take after Pacini glimpsed bacteria in his microscope for others to make the same discovery?

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

4. In Building the Case, what part of the body was affected by cholera?

5. In Building the Case, how many quarts of Broad Street water did a boy tell Whitehead he had drunk from the Broad Street pump?

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