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

2. How long of a pole did toshers carry in The Night-Soil Men?
(a) 6 foot.
(b) 5 foot.
(c) 8 foot.
(d) 7 foot.

3. What did John Snow's father do for a living?
(a) Professor.
(b) Laborer.
(c) Grocer.
(d) Blacksmith.

4. When did Queen Victoria decide to give chloroform a try?
(a) 1853.
(b) 1842.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1874.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Queen Victoria inhale chloroform when she had her eighth child?

2. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how many citizens were inmates at the St. James Workhouse?

3. In The Investigator, how many blocks were ravished by cholera?

4. Who designed Regent Street to connect Marylebone Park wit the Prince Regent's new home at Carlton House?

5. How old was Snow when he apprenticed to a surgeon on Newcastle-on-Tyne?

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