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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Friday, September 8: The Pump Handle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Thomas Lewis become ill?
(a) September 7.
(b) September 5.
(c) September 8.
(d) September 6.

2. When did Queen Victoria decide to give chloroform a try?
(a) 1853.
(b) 1842.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1874.

3. When did Whitehead believe that paitent zero would have fallen ill?
(a) August 31.
(b) August 30.
(c) Around August 29.
(d) Around August 28.

4. In The Pump Handle, when did Snow give Whitehead a copy of his monograph?
(a) 1855.
(b) 1857.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1854.

5. In 1846 what did Edwin Chadwick tell a parliamentary committee that the problem of London sewage was?
(a) The contamination of water.
(b) The bacteria.
(c) The smell.
(d) The quantity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By Sunday morning, how many people were on the edge of death?

3. What did the Board of Health have put on the streets in All Smell is Disease?

4. When Snow studied at Hunterian School of Medicine, how long did it take him to obtain his apothecary and surgeon's license?

5. In All Smell Is Disease, when was a study done that discovered that strong smells triggered activity in the amygdala and the ventral insula of the brain?

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