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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 was a water-flushing device invented by Sir John Harington?
(a) Late sixteenth century.
(b) Seventeenth century.
(c) Early fifteenth century.
(d) Eighteenth century.

2. What did Whithead mix Broad Street water with at the end of The Investigator?
(a) Brandy.
(b) Lemons.
(c) Limes.
(d) Whisky.

3. At the beginning of The Night-Soil Men, what river would the toshers wade through the muck of low tide?
(a) Darent.
(b) Lea.
(c) Cray.
(d) Thames.

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

5. In The Night-Soil Men, how far would a bone-picker travel?
(a) 20-30 miles.
(b) 25-35 miles.
(c) 15-20 miles.
(d) 5-10 miles.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Investigator, how old is John Snow?

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

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

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

5. How old was Snow when he apprenticed to a surgeon on Newcastle-on-Tyne?

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