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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 doctors begin recommending chloroform for the discomfort of childbirth?
(a) 1850s.
(b) 1860s.
(c) 1870s.
(d) 1840s.

2. By Sunday morning, how many people were on the edge of death?
(a) 300.
(b) Thousands.
(c) 105.
(d) Hundreds.

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

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

5. When did Thomas and Sarah Lewis's infant daughter become sick?
(a) August 1, 1854.
(b) August 5, 1854.
(c) August 28, 1854.
(d) August 30, 1854.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. About how many people were part of the London scavengers in The Night-Soil Men?

3. When did Queen Victoria decide to give chloroform a try?

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

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

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