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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. At the beginning of The Night-Soil Men, what river would the toshers wade through the muck of low tide?
(a) Thames.
(b) Lea.
(c) Cray.
(d) Darent.

2. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, when was the last time it had rained in London?
(a) Middle of August.
(b) First of August.
(c) Middle of July.
(d) End of July.

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

4. In The Night-Soil Men, how many corpses were packed into a burial ground in Islington?
(a) 15,000.
(b) 80,000.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 55,000.

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) 1998.
(b) 2001.
(c) 1976.
(d) 2003.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Queen Victoria decide to give chloroform a try?

2. When were Sanskrit writings written that describe a cholera-like disease?

3. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, what had been the temperature for several straight days?

4. When did doctors begin recommending chloroform for the discomfort of childbirth?

5. When did Snow propose a theory that an agent that victims ingested was the cause of cholera?

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