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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Ghost Map.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Snow when he died?
(a) 45.
(b) 39.
(c) 51.
(d) 62.

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

3. In The Pump Handle, when did the board of governors of St. James Parish hold an emergency meeting?
(a) Friday night.
(b) Tuesday night.
(c) Wednesday night.
(d) Thursday night.

4. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how many citizens were inmates at the St. James Workhouse?
(a) 250.
(b) 500.
(c) 115.
(d) 475.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many pages of "Sedgwick's Principles of Sanitary Science and Public Health" mention the Board of Health verdict of the Broad Street outbreak?

3. When did Snow propose a theory that an agent that victims ingested was the cause of cholera?

4. In All Smell is Disease, how many people died in the cholera outbreak of 1848-1849?

5. Where was St. Luke's Church located in Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue?

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