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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 the first demonstration of ether in Boston?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1846.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1847.

2. How old was Snow when he apprenticed to a surgeon on Newcastle-on-Tyne?
(a) 17.
(b) 14.
(c) 16.
(d) 15.

3. When long ago were composting pits used by the citizens of Knossos?
(a) 4,000 years.
(b) 7,500 years.
(c) 4,500 years.
(d) 8,000 years.

4. In 1854, what was the population of London?
(a) 1 million.
(b) 1 1/2 million.
(c) 3 million.
(d) 2 1/2 million.

5. About how many people were part of the London scavengers in The Night-Soil Men?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 80,000.
(c) 20,000.
(d) 50,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Night-Soil Men, how many corpses were packed into a burial ground in Islington?

2. When were Sanskrit writings written that describe a cholera-like disease?

3. In The Investigator, when was the cholera outbreak that made curing cholera one of the most urgent medical riddles of the time?

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

5. Which college did Henry Whitehead attend at Oxford?

(see the answer key)

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