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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 Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how many workers did the Lion Brewery on Broad Street employ?
(a) 39.
(b) 24.
(c) 70.
(d) 12.

2. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how many animals would a slaughterhouse at the edge of Soho on Marshall Street kill per day on average?
(a) 2 oxen and 6 sheep.
(b) 5 oxen and 7 sheep.
(c) 20 oxen and 23 sheep.
(d) 10 oxen and 12 sheep.

3. In The Investigator in 1848 on what steamer did John Harnold work as a crewman?
(a) Labyrinth.
(b) Elbe.
(c) Hamburg.
(d) Rosemarie.

4. When Snow studied at Hunterian School of Medicine, how long did it take him to obtain his apothecary and surgeon's license?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 3 1/2 years.
(d) 2 1/2 years.

5. Which of Charles Dickens' novels had scene a where a team of toshers took coins from a corpse?
(a) Hard Times.
(b) Out Mutual Friend.
(c) Little Dorrit.
(d) Bleak House.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Thomas and Sarah Lewis's infant daughter become sick?

2. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how man dogs did a man at 38 Silver Street keep in one room?

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

4. When was the first demonstration of ether in Boston?

5. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how many citizens were inmates at the St. James Workhouse?

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