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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tuesday, September 5: All Smell Is Disease.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how many workers did the Lion Brewery on Broad Street employ?
(a) 12.
(b) 39.
(c) 24.
(d) 70.

2. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how long after the Lewis baby fell ill did life in Golden Square continue as usual?
(a) 3 days.
(b) 2 weeks.
(c) 2 days.
(d) 1 week.

3. In That Is to Say, Jo Has Not Yet Died, who went up in a hot-air balloon to examine the entire city of London?
(a) Richard Andrews.
(b) Robert Phillips.
(c) David Watson.
(d) Henry Mayhew.

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

5. When did Snow propose a theory that an agent that victims ingested was the cause of cholera?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1851.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1849.

Short Answer Questions

1. By Sunday morning, how many people had died in the last 24hours?

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

3. In the mid-1800s, how many firms supplied water to London?

4. When did Thomas Latta come up with a water cure for cholera?

5. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, what day of the week did the Eley brothers take a bottle of water from the Broad Street pump to their mother?

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