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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Sedgwick's Principles of Sanitary Science and Public Health", how many pages are devoted to the Broad Street outbreak?
(a) 9.
(b) 11.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.

2. In Building the Case, how many cholera patients were admitted to Middlesex Hospital?
(a) More than 120.
(b) 125.
(c) 145.
(d) About 130.

3. In The Investigator, in July 1849, how many people died on Thomas Street in Horsleydown?
(a) Around 10.
(b) 9.
(c) About 12.
(d) 11.

4. In The Ghost Map, when did the "Daily News" accuse the sewer builders of unearthing human remains?
(a) September 8.
(b) September 9.
(c) September 11.
(d) September 7.

5. What did Farr give Snow when he visited the Registrar-General's office?
(a) Advance copies of the number calculated for the next week.
(b) Names of those who recovered.
(c) Names and address of those who died.
(d) List of victims.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Florence Nightingale write her "Notes on Nursing"?

2. When did Snow first share his map at a meeting of the Epidemiological Society?

3. When did cholera first appear in New York City?

4. How many men were on a team of night-soil workers?

5. In The Ghost Map, who was sometimes credited instead of Snow for the discovery of the waterborne theory of the dispersion of cholera?

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