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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did Queen Victoria inhale chloroform when she had her eighth child?
(a) 39 minutes.
(b) 48 minutes.
(c) 62 minutes.
(d) 53 minutes.

2. In The Night-Soil Men, what did the pure-finders collect?
(a) Horse feces.
(b) Human feces.
(c) Rat feces.
(d) Dog feces.

3. When long ago were composting pits used by the citizens of Knossos?
(a) 7,500 years.
(b) 4,500 years.
(c) 8,000 years.
(d) 4,000 years.

4. What did Whithead mix Broad Street water with at the end of The Investigator?
(a) Brandy.
(b) Limes.
(c) Whisky.
(d) Lemons.

5. In The Night-Soil Men, how many corpses were packed into a burial ground in Islington?
(a) 30,000.
(b) 80,000.
(c) 55,000.
(d) 15,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was The Long Epidemiological Society founded?

2. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, what had been the temperature for several straight days?

3. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how many workers did the Lion Brewery on Broad Street employ?

4. In the chapter that takes place on September 4, what corpses were disturbed when the new sewers were built?

5. How old was Snow when he read John Frank Newton's 1811 manifesto "The Return to Nature: A Defense of the Vegetable Regimen"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Henry Whitehead?

2. What is the cure for cholera?

3. On September 4, what did Whitehead hear residents saying about the cause of the cholera outbreak?

4. In The Investigator, who was the famous patient who chose Snow to administer chloroform during childbirth and why?

5. How is cholera spread?

6. What did the night-soil men do and what were they paid?

7. Why was the cholera outbreak in Golden Square unusual?

8. Who was John Snow?

9. Why was the introduction of ether as an anesthetic import in The Investigator?

10. In The Night-Soil Men, what type of neighborhood did Soho become in the years after the 1665 plague?

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