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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. In All Smell is Disease, when did Benjamin become president of the Board of Health?

2. In The Pump Handle, for what age children was getting water from the Broad Street pump a common chore?

3. How long did Thomas Lewis fight the disease before dying?

4. In The Ghost Map during the cholera outbreak in 1866, how many people had died by the end of August?

5. In The Ghost Map, when the new sewer system was designed, when was sewage discharged into the Thames?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was it odd that the sewer-hunters had long lifespans and were rarely sick?

2. In The Pump Handle, what was discovered when a surveyor examined the cesspool at the base of 40 Broad?

3. In The Ghost Map, what short-term impact might Snow's map have had?

4. How did Whitehead and Snow begin working together in The Pump Handle?

5. How did Chadwick's career become the origin of the concept of "big government"? (113)

6. What did one scholar testify before Parliament in 1864 about the value of London's sewage?

7. In Building the Case, what about the way that cholera affected the human body led Snow to believe that cholera was ingested and not inhaled?

8. In The Ghost Map, what did the first map look like that Snow created?

9. In Building the Case, how would residents of Cross Street get to the Broad Street pump?

10. In Building the Case, what was the law of diffusion of gases?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

After an extensive sewer system was installed, London no longer had cholera outbreaks. How did technology stop cholera outbreaks, and what role might technology play in solving future urban problems?

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, John Snow became an investigator of the causes of cholera. How did Snow’s background, education, interests, and work make him an investigator?

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