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

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

3. By the end of the 1800s, how much teas was imported to England?
(a) 15,000 tons.
(b) 11,000 tons.
(c) 9,000 tons.
(d) 13,000 tons.

4. By September 4, how many workers at the Eley Brothers factory had gotten cholera?
(a) 18.
(b) About 20.
(c) 35.
(d) More than 2 dozen.

5. In 1851 in the subdistrict of Berwick Street, how many people were there per acre of land?
(a) 112.
(b) 432.
(c) 205.
(d) 50.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In The Night-Soil Men, how far would a bone-picker travel?

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

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

5. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, with whom did Susannah Eley share a bottle of water from the Broad Street pump?

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