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

2. During the cholera outbreak of 1831, what group of individuals did Snow treat?
(a) Miners.
(b) Children.
(c) Sailors.
(d) Elderly.

3. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, what day of the week did the Eley brothers take a bottle of water from the Broad Street pump to their mother?
(a) Monday.
(b) Tuesday.
(c) Wednesday.
(d) Thursday.

4. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how many sheep would the main livestock market at Smithfield regularly sell in two days?
(a) 15,000.
(b) 30,000.
(c) 23,000.
(d) 500.

5. How old was Snow when he read John Frank Newton's 1811 manifesto "The Return to Nature: A Defense of the Vegetable Regimen"?
(a) 15.
(b) 12.
(c) 17.
(d) 20.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Snow's paper on the use of arsenic in the preservation of cadavers appeared in "The Lancet"?

2. What did John Snow's father do for a living?

3. Which college did Henry Whitehead attend at Oxford?

4. In The Night-Soil Men, what hours did the night-soil men work?

5. In The Investigator, how many blocks were ravished by cholera?

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