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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. When did Snow propose a theory that an agent that victims ingested was the cause of cholera?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1850.
(c) 1851.
(d) 1849.

2. 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?
(a) Tuesday.
(b) Thursday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Wednesday.

3. When did the Earl of Craven purchase a block of land called Soho Field?
(a) 1811.
(b) 1665.
(c) 1709.
(d) 1594.

4. In The Night-Soil Men, how many corpses were packed into a burial ground in Islington?
(a) 30,000.
(b) 80,000.
(c) 15,000.
(d) 55,000.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1854, what was the population of London?

2. During the cholera outbreak of 1831, what group of individuals did Snow treat?

3. When were Sanskrit writings written that describe a cholera-like disease?

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

5. In The Night-Soil Men, what did the pure-finders collect?

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