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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. How many men were on a team of night-soil workers?
(a) 8.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 2.

2. How long did Queen Victoria inhale chloroform when she had her eighth child?
(a) 53 minutes.
(b) 62 minutes.
(c) 39 minutes.
(d) 48 minutes.

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

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

5. When did Thomas Latta come up with a water cure for cholera?
(a) 1784.
(b) 1832.
(c) 1841.
(d) 1798.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At the beginning of The Night-Soil Men, what river would the toshers wade through the muck of low tide?

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

4. When did doctors begin recommending chloroform for the discomfort of childbirth?

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

(see the answer key)

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