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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 The Night-Soil Men, how long would it take a bone-picker go go over his rounds?
(a) 5 hours.
(b) 10 hours.
(c) 7-9 hours.
(d) 6-8 hours.

2. When did Thomas and Sarah Lewis's infant daughter become sick?
(a) August 1, 1854.
(b) August 30, 1854.
(c) August 28, 1854.
(d) August 5, 1854.

3. Which of Charles Dickens' novels had scene a where a team of toshers took coins from a corpse?
(a) Out Mutual Friend.
(b) Bleak House.
(c) Hard Times.
(d) Little Dorrit.

4. 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) Henry Mayhew.
(b) David Watson.
(c) Richard Andrews.
(d) Robert Phillips.

5. How long of a pole did toshers carry in The Night-Soil Men?
(a) 5 foot.
(b) 7 foot.
(c) 8 foot.
(d) 6 foot.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Investigator, when was the cholera outbreak that made curing cholera one of the most urgent medical riddles of the time?

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

3. In That Is To Say, Jo Has Not Yet Died, how long did it take the newapapers to report the cholera outbreak?

4. During the epidemics of the late 1840s and 1850s, how many Londoners would typically die of cholera in a matter of weeks?

5. When was a water-flushing device invented by Sir John Harington?

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