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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Monday, September 4: That Is to Say, Jo Has Not Yet Died.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how man dogs did a man at 38 Silver Street keep in one room?
(a) 3.
(b) 27.
(c) 8.
(d) 11.

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

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

5. In the mid-1800s, how many firms supplied water to London?
(a) About 12.
(b) 20.
(c) Roughly 10.
(d) 13.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How old was Henry Whitehead in Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue?

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

5. In 1842 in Bethnal Green was was the average life expectancy for the working poor?

(see the answer key)

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