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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 The Pump Handle, how many people did the author say were crowded into three city blocks?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 750.
(c) 600.
(d) 250.

2. When did Edwin Chadwick publish his study of sanitation among the laboring classes?
(a) 1852.
(b) 1842.
(c) 1840.
(d) 1841.

3. In The Investigator in 1848 on what steamer did John Harnold work as a crewman?
(a) Labyrinth.
(b) Rosemarie.
(c) Elbe.
(d) Hamburg.

4. In The Pump Handle, how long did the deaths in Soho continue after the pump handle was removed?
(a) About 4 days.
(b) 3 days.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) Another week.

5. By September 5, how many residents of the Golden Square neighborhood died in the last 5 days?
(a) About 300.
(b) 450.
(c) 630.
(d) More than 500.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Farr give Snow when he visited the Registrar-General's office?

3. In All Smell is Disease, how many homes in 1849 were found to have offensive smells from bad drainage?

4. According to Mayhew in 1845, how many ships hauled animal manure to England?

5. What did the Board of Health have put on the streets in All Smell is Disease?

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