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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, when did the board of governors of St. James Parish hold an emergency meeting?
(a) Tuesday night.
(b) Thursday night.
(c) Friday night.
(d) Wednesday night.

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

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 6 or 7.
(b) Any child older than 8.
(c) Any child older than 9 or 10.
(d) Any child older than 11.

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

5. In The Investigator, how many blocks were ravished by cholera?
(a) 7 square blocks.
(b) 5 square blocks.
(c) 8 square blocks.
(d) 3 square blocks.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Thomas Lewis become ill?

2. When did Snow earn his bachelor of medicine degree from the University of London?

3. When Whitehead research the records, how long did he discover that the Lewis baby was sick before she died?

4. What did Whithead mix Broad Street water with at the end of The Investigator?

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

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