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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 was Edwin Chadwick appointed to the Poor Law Commission?
(a) 1832.
(b) 1829.
(c) 1827.
(d) 1831.

2. When did Snow earn his bachelor of medicine degree from the University of London?
(a) 1844.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1842.
(d) 1843.

3. In The Pump Handle, how many directives did Benjamin Hall issue for the three-man committee formed to investigate the Broad Street outbreak?
(a) 50.
(b) 45.
(c) 39.
(d) 60.

4. In All Smell is Disease, according to Joseph Bazalgette, how many cesspools were abolished in about six years?
(a) 30,000.
(b) 25,000.
(c) 35,000.
(d) 20,000.

5. 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) 3.
(b) 11.
(c) 8.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Pump Handle, how many deaths did Whitehead say occurred at the model home on Peter Street?

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

3. When did doctors begin recommending chloroform for the discomfort of childbirth?

4. In The Pump Handle, how many people did the author say were crowded into three city blocks?

5. In The Investigator, in July 1849, how many people died on Thomas Street in Horsleydown?

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