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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. In The Pump Handle, among the 45 houses extending in all directions from the intersection of Broad and Cambridge streets, how many managed to survive the epidemic without losing a single resident?
(a) 11.
(b) 8.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

2. In All Smell is Disease, what did the records Farr showed Snow reveal about the number of deaths in Soho between Thursday and Saturday?
(a) 91.
(b) 78.
(c) 86.
(d) 83.

3. How long was the monograph titled "The Cholera in Benwick Street" that Whitehead wrote?
(a) 11 pages.
(b) 17 pages.
(c) 9 pages.
(d) 12 pages.

4. When did Florence Nightingale write her "Notes on Nursing"?
(a) 1857.
(b) 1853.
(c) 1849.
(d) 1861.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Pump Handle, for what age children was getting water from the Broad Street pump a common chore?

2. In The Pump Handle, how many cases of cholera were reported on Saturday morning according to The Globe?

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

4. In All Smell is Disease, how many people died in the cholera outbreak of 1848-1849?

5. In All Smell is Disease, how far back did the miasma theory date to?

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