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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Monday, September 4: That Is to Say, Jo Has Not Yet Died.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In The Night-Soil Men, how many corpses were packed into a burial ground in Islington?
(a) 80,000.
(b) 15,000.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 55,000.

2. When long ago were composting pits used by the citizens of Knossos?
(a) 8,000 years.
(b) 7,500 years.
(c) 4,500 years.
(d) 4,000 years.

3. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, what day of the week did the Eley brothers take a bottle of water from the Broad Street pump to their mother?
(a) Tuesday.
(b) Thursday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Wednesday.

4. When was a water-flushing device invented by Sir John Harington?
(a) Early fifteenth century.
(b) Seventeenth century.
(c) Late sixteenth century.
(d) Eighteenth century.

5. What did Whithead mix Broad Street water with at the end of The Investigator?
(a) Limes.
(b) Brandy.
(c) Lemons.
(d) Whisky.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1851 in the subdistrict of Berwick Street, how many people were there per acre of land?

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

3. In 1850, how many gallons of water a day were used by the average London household?

4. When did Snow's paper on the use of arsenic in the preservation of cadavers appeared in "The Lancet"?

5. How old was Snow when he apprenticed to a surgeon on Newcastle-on-Tyne?

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