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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 All Smell is Disease, up until what date was it illegal to discharge raw waste into the sewers?
(a) 1815.
(b) 1821.
(c) 1819.
(d) 1804.

2. 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) 60.
(c) 39.
(d) 45.

3. At the beginning of All Smell is Disease, how many people did Whitehead see recover?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

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

5. In All Smell is Disease, how did John Snow spend September 5?
(a) Looking for patterns.
(b) Taking water samples to a chemist.
(c) Analyzing water samples.
(d) Treating patients.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Thomas Lewis fight the disease before dying?

2. In The Pump Handle, when did the board of governors of St. James Parish hold an emergency meeting?

3. In The Investigator in 1848 on what steamer did John Harnold work as a crewman?

4. When did Queen Victoria decide to give chloroform a try?

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

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