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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sunday, September 3: The Investigator.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About how many people were part of the London scavengers in The Night-Soil Men?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 80,000.
(c) 20,000.
(d) 100,000.

2. Which college did Henry Whitehead attend at Oxford?
(a) Lincoln.
(b) Kellogg.
(c) Exeter.
(d) Mansfield.

3. When did Snow's paper on the use of arsenic in the preservation of cadavers appeared in "The Lancet"?
(a) 1839.
(b) 1841.
(c) 1840.
(d) 1838.

4. How old was Snow when he apprenticed to a surgeon on Newcastle-on-Tyne?
(a) 16.
(b) 14.
(c) 15.
(d) 17.

5. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how man dogs did a man at 38 Silver Street keep in one room?
(a) 8.
(b) 3.
(c) 27.
(d) 11.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Night-Soil Men, what did the toshers wear?

2. When long ago were composting pits used by the citizens of Knossos?

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

4. How long did Queen Victoria inhale chloroform when she had her eighth child?

5. In The Night-Soil Men, how long would it take a bone-picker go go over his rounds?

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