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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. About how many people were part of the London scavengers in The Night-Soil Men?
(a) 80,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 20,000.

2. In 1842, what was the average age of death for the well-to-do male?
(a) 50.
(b) 45.
(c) 55.
(d) 48.

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

4. When Snow studied at Hunterian School of Medicine, how long did it take him to obtain his apothecary and surgeon's license?
(a) 3 1/2 years.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 2 1/2 years.
(d) 2 years.

5. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how far did the Broad Street Pump extend below the surface of the street?
(a) 10 feet.
(b) 30 feet.
(c) 50 feet.
(d) 25 feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long of a pole did toshers carry in The Night-Soil Men?

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

3. Which college did Henry Whitehead attend at Oxford?

4. By September 4, how many workers at the Lion Brewery had contracted cholera?

5. How old was Snow when he apprenticed to a surgeon on Newcastle-on-Tyne?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was John Snow?

3. By Sunday morning, September 3, what was going on at the beginning of The Investigator?

4. How did Snow get test subjects for his work in The Investigator?

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

6. In The Night-Soil Men, how were the poor buried at the pauper burial ground at St. Bride's?

7. In That Is to Say, Jo Has Not Yet Died, what did Sir Richard Phillips predict in 1813 about London?

8. In The Investigator, what device did Snow create with instrument maker Daniel Ferguson to control the dosage of ether?

9. How did the growth of tea drinkers help population growth?

10. What was thought about cholera and the British way of life prior to 1831?

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