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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. By Sunday morning, how many people had died in the last 24hours?
(a) 70.
(b) 46.
(c) 55.
(d) 63.

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

3. When was Edwin Chadwick appointed to the Poor Law Commission?
(a) 1829.
(b) 1827.
(c) 1831.
(d) 1832.

4. When did Florence Nightingale write her "Notes on Nursing"?
(a) 1857.
(b) 1849.
(c) 1853.
(d) 1861.

5. In All Smell Is Disease, when was a study done that discovered that strong smells triggered activity in the amygdala and the ventral insula of the brain?
(a) 2001.
(b) 2003.
(c) 1976.
(d) 1998.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Snow when he apprenticed to a surgeon on Newcastle-on-Tyne?

2. How long did it take after Pacini glimpsed bacteria in his microscope for others to make the same discovery?

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

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

5. In The Pump Handle, as Whitehead tracked down residents who left the neighborhood, how many was he able to find?

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