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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. When did doctors begin recommending chloroform for the discomfort of childbirth?
(a) 1850s.
(b) 1860s.
(c) 1870s.
(d) 1840s.

2. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, what had been the temperature for several straight days?
(a) 60s.
(b) 90s.
(c) 70s.
(d) 80s.

3. Which college did Henry Whitehead attend at Oxford?
(a) Exeter.
(b) Kellogg.
(c) Lincoln.
(d) Mansfield.

4. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how many sheep would the main livestock market at Smithfield regularly sell in two days?
(a) 500.
(b) 15,000.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 23,000.

5. In The Night-Soil Men, what did the toshers wear?
(a) Velveteen coats.
(b) Leather boots.
(c) Corduroy jackets.
(d) Waders.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long of a pole did toshers carry in The Night-Soil Men?

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

4. How old was Henry Whitehead in Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue?

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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