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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. During the cholera outbreak of 1831, what group of individuals did Snow treat?
(a) Miners.
(b) Sailors.
(c) Children.
(d) Elderly.

2. How old was Snow when he read John Frank Newton's 1811 manifesto "The Return to Nature: A Defense of the Vegetable Regimen"?
(a) 17.
(b) 20.
(c) 12.
(d) 15.

3. In The Pump Handle, for what age children was getting water from the Broad Street pump a common chore?
(a) Any child older than 11.
(b) Any child older than 8.
(c) Any child older than 6 or 7.
(d) Any child older than 9 or 10.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In All Smell is Disease, what did the records Farr showed Snow reveal about the number of deaths in Soho between Thursday and Saturday?

(see the answer key)

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