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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 died?

2. At the beginning of All Smell is Disease, how many people did Whitehead see recover?

3. In The Ghost Map, when was there a horrible stench along the banks of the Thames?

4. When did Florence Nightingale write her "Notes on Nursing"?

5. In 1846 what did Edwin Chadwick tell a parliamentary committee that the problem of London sewage was?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why was the pump handle removed on September 8?

3. How did Henry Mayhew see waste recycling as a way of increasing population growth?

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

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

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

7. In Building the Case, what finally persuaded authorities that cholera was waterborne?

8. In All Smell is Disease, why might Henry Whitehead have believed that the cholera might be ending?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Johnson uses imagery to help readers imagine what London and the cholera outbreak were like. How does Johnson’s use of imagery help readers understand the times and problems that people faced?

Essay Topic 2

The author referred to Snow as a polymath. What was a polymath, and how did Snow’s polymath of viewing the world not allow him to accept the miasma theory?

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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