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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 class of people did Whitehead notice during a sermon had survived the plague in disproportionate numbers?
(a) Poor children under ten.
(b) Poor, elderly men.
(c) Poor, elderly women.
(d) Poor teenagers.

2. When did Snow's paper on the use of arsenic in the preservation of cadavers appeared in "The Lancet"?
(a) 1839.
(b) 1840.
(c) 1841.
(d) 1838.

3. When did Queen Victoria decide to give chloroform a try?
(a) 1853.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1842.
(d) 1874.

4. In The Investigator, how old is John Snow?
(a) 51.
(b) 42.
(c) 39.
(d) 60.

5. When Snow studied at Hunterian School of Medicine, how long did it take him to obtain his apothecary and surgeon's license?
(a) 2 1/2 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 3 years.
(d) 3 1/2 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Queen Victoria inhale chloroform when she had her eighth child?

2. When did Edwin Chadwick publish his study of sanitation among the laboring classes?

3. When did Florence Nightingale write her "Notes on Nursing"?

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

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

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