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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. During the epidemics of the late 1840s and 1850s, how many Londoners would typically die of cholera in a matter of weeks?
(a) 450.
(b) 500.
(c) 800.
(d) 1,000.

2. By September 4, how many workers at the Lion Brewery had contracted cholera?
(a) 20.
(b) 0.
(c) 15.
(d) 11.

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

4. When were Sanskrit writings written that describe a cholera-like disease?
(a) 500 A.D.
(b) After 40 A.D.
(c) Around 500 B.C.
(d) 1241 B.C.

5. Which college did Henry Whitehead attend at Oxford?
(a) Exeter.
(b) Lincoln.
(c) Kellogg.
(d) Mansfield.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the chapter that takes place on September 4, what corpses were disturbed when the new sewers were built?

2. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, with whom did Henry Whitehead share a room?

3. In The Night-Soil Men, how long would it take a bone-picker go go over his rounds?

4. In 1854 if a letter was sent by mail at 9 a.m., when would the recipient across town receive it?

5. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, what day of the week did the Eley brothers take a bottle of water from the Broad Street pump to their mother?

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