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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. At number 10 Cross Street, who lived with a tailor in his single room in Building the Case?

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

3. On September 6, to how many patients did Snow deliver chloroform?

4. In The Ghost Map, in what publication did an unsigned editorial appear that lambasted Snow's waterborne theory of cholera?

5. In The Pump Handle, when was the handle of the Broad Street pump removed?

Short Essay Questions

1. In The Pump Handle, why did Whitehead have a crucial edge in the cholera investigation?

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

3. Why was the removal of the pump handle on September 8 significant?

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

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

6. In Building the Case, what did Snow discover that seemed to point to a reason why residents at 50 Poland Street and workers at the Lion Brewery did not contract cholera?

7. In All Smell is Disease, what one action did the Board of Health see was completed and why?

8. What was the Great Stink and how did it affect epidemic disease at the time?

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

10. Through the new sewer system, how much waste was deposited into the Thames and what was the result?

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

When the Board of Health was investigating the cholera outbreak, a document was written to instruct investigators. What were the conditions that the document stated would be investigated, and how did the way that the investigation was set up not allow for any theory to be correct other than the miasma theory?

Essay Topic 3

Diseases were a brake on human growth. How did cholera and other epidemics decimate populations, and how were they a brake on human growth?

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