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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sunday, September 3: The Investigator.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How old was Snow when he read John Frank Newton's 1811 manifesto "The Return to Nature: A Defense of the Vegetable Regimen"?
(a) 15.
(b) 12.
(c) 17.
(d) 20.

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

5. How long did Queen Victoria inhale chloroform when she had her eighth child?
(a) 62 minutes.
(b) 48 minutes.
(c) 39 minutes.
(d) 53 minutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how many workers did the Lion Brewery on Broad Street employ?

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

3. When did Snow earn his bachelor of medicine degree from the University of London?

4. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how far did the Broad Street Pump extend below the surface of the street?

5. Which of Charles Dickens' novels had scene a where a team of toshers took coins from a corpse?

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