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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, when was the last time it had rained in London?
(a) First of August.
(b) Middle of August.
(c) Middle of July.
(d) End of July.

2. When did Snow propose a theory that an agent that victims ingested was the cause of cholera?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1849.
(c) 1851.
(d) 1850.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how many animals would a slaughterhouse at the edge of Soho on Marshall Street kill per day on average?

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

3. When long ago were composting pits used by the citizens of Knossos?

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

5. 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?

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