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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) 30-40.
(b) 60-80.
(c) 50-60.
(d) 40-50.

2. By Sunday morning, how many people were on the edge of death?
(a) Thousands.
(b) 105.
(c) Hundreds.
(d) 300.

3. In 1843, where did a proposal want to have cast-iron sewers transport waste?
(a) Kent and Essex.
(b) Cumbria and Suffolk.
(c) Shropshire.
(d) Surrey.

4. In The Night-Soil Men, how far would a bone-picker travel?
(a) 15-20 miles.
(b) 5-10 miles.
(c) 20-30 miles.
(d) 25-35 miles.

5. On September 4, in the three days since the outbreak, how many residents of well-to-do houses had died?
(a) Third.
(b) Quarter.
(c) Eighth.
(d) Half.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. In the chapter that takes place on September 4, what corpses were disturbed when the new sewers were built?

5. How old was Snow when he read John Frank Newton's 1811 manifesto "The Return to Nature: A Defense of the Vegetable Regimen"?

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