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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. What did the Board of Health have put on the streets in All Smell is Disease?
(a) Water and bleach.
(b) Salt.
(c) Chloride of lime.
(d) Bleach.

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

3. In All Smell Is Disease, what was the lifespan of some of the men who worked in the sewers?
(a) 50-60.
(b) 30-40.
(c) 60-80.
(d) 40-50.

4. At the beginning of the 1800s, how much tea was imported to England?
(a) 7 tons.
(b) 6 tons.
(c) 4 tons.
(d) 5 tons.

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?
(a) Monday.
(b) Wednesday.
(c) Tuesday.
(d) Thursday.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how long after the Lewis baby fell ill did life in Golden Square continue as usual?

2. About how many people were part of the London scavengers in The Night-Soil Men?

3. In 1846 what did Edwin Chadwick tell a parliamentary committee that the problem of London sewage was?

4. When was the first demonstration of ether in Boston?

5. Who was the first Englishman to die from cholera in Britain?

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