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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. What did the Board of Health have put on the streets in All Smell is Disease?
(a) Bleach.
(b) Salt.
(c) Water and bleach.
(d) Chloride of lime.

2. How long did Thomas Lewis fight the disease before dying?
(a) 5 days.
(b) 9 days.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 11 days.

3. In The Investigator, in July 1849, how many people died on Thomas Street in Horsleydown?
(a) Around 10.
(b) 9.
(c) About 12.
(d) 11.

4. How old was Snow when he apprenticed to a surgeon on Newcastle-on-Tyne?
(a) 16.
(b) 15.
(c) 17.
(d) 14.

5. In The Pump Handle, how many cases of cholera were reported on Saturday morning according to The Globe?
(a) 9 or 10.
(b) 7 or 8.
(c) 11.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did John Snow's father do for a living?

2. In 1846 what did Edwin Chadwick tell a parliamentary committee that the problem of London sewage was?

3. In The Pump Handle, how long did the deaths in Soho continue after the pump handle was removed?

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

5. In All Smell is Disease, up until what date was it illegal to discharge raw waste into the sewers?

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