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

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

3. Who designed Regent Street to connect Marylebone Park wit the Prince Regent's new home at Carlton House?

4. On September 4, in the three days since the outbreak, how many residents of well-to-do houses had died?

5. How long did London remain the manufacturing center of England?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is cholera spread?

2. When and where was ether first introduced, and when was it first available in London?

3. What were mortality rates in 1842?

4. What is the cure for cholera?

5. Why are the bacteria-driven processes of decomposition important?

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

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

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

9. How was the cholera outbreak that hit New York City reported in 1832, and how did the reports of the outbreak affect the city?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

London was one of the largest cities in the world in the 1800s. What problems were caused by overpopulation in London, and what connections were there between overpopulation and epidemics?

Essay Topic 2

Snow persuaded authorities to remove the Broad Street pump handle. What did removing the handle symbolize, and how was removing the handle a turning point in history?

Essay Topic 3

The author said it would be tempting to set Snow up as the solitary genius who discarded conventional wisdom and used his intellect to solve a problem. How did Snow solve the mystery of cholera transmission, and what does that reveal about the way that most intellectual breakthroughs occur?

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