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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 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.

2. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how man dogs did a man at 38 Silver Street keep in one room?
(a) 27.
(b) 3.
(c) 11.
(d) 8.

3. 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) Wednesday.
(b) Monday.
(c) Tuesday.
(d) Thursday.

4. When were Sanskrit writings written that describe a cholera-like disease?
(a) Around 500 B.C.
(b) 1241 B.C.
(c) 500 A.D.
(d) After 40 A.D.

5. In All Smell is Disease, how many people died in the cholera outbreak of 1848-1849?
(a) About 11,000.
(b) Nearly 15,000.
(c) 9,000.
(d) 7,500.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1842 in Bethnal Green was was the average life expectancy for the working poor?

2. By Sunday morning, how many people were on the edge of death?

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

4. At the beginning of The Night-Soil Men, what river would the toshers wade through the muck of low tide?

5. In 1851 in the subdistrict of Berwick Street, how many people were there per acre of land?

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