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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 Snow's paper on the use of arsenic in the preservation of cadavers appeared in "The Lancet"?
(a) 1841.
(b) 1838.
(c) 1840.
(d) 1839.

2. When Snow studied at Hunterian School of Medicine, how long did it take him to obtain his apothecary and surgeon's license?
(a) 3 1/2 years.
(b) 2 1/2 years.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 3 years.

3. In 1851 in the subdistrict of Berwick Street, how many people were there per acre of land?
(a) 432.
(b) 205.
(c) 112.
(d) 50.

4. In The Investigator, when was the cholera outbreak that made curing cholera one of the most urgent medical riddles of the time?
(a) 1846-1847.
(b) 1853-1854.
(c) 1848-1849.
(d) 1851-1852.

5. Who was the first Englishman to die from cholera in Britain?
(a) David Morris.
(b) John James.
(c) Peter Franklin.
(d) William Sproat.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Henry Whitehead offered a position at St. Luke's?

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

3. When was a water-flushing device invented by Sir John Harington?

4. In The Night-Soil Men, how long would it take a bone-picker go go over his rounds?

5. In The Night-Soil Men, how many corpses were packed into a burial ground in Islington?

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