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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. What did John Snow's father do for a living?

2. In The Investigator, when was the cholera outbreak that made curing cholera one of the most urgent medical riddles of the time?

3. In 1854, where was the scientist from who discovered a small comma-shaped organism in the intestinal mucosa of a cholera victim?

4. By Sunday morning, how many people had died in the last 24hours?

5. In The Night-Soil Men, how far would a bone-picker travel?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. On September 4, what groups of people were spared from the cholera outbreak?

8. In The Night-Soil Men, who were the toshers and what did they do?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Henry Whitehead initially rejected Snow’s theory of how the cholera outbreak began. What were Whitehead’s objections to Snow’s theory, and how were his objections resolved so that he accepted Snow’s theory?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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