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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 earn his bachelor of medicine degree from the University of London?
(a) 1844.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1843.
(d) 1842.

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

3. By Sunday morning, how many people were on the edge of death?
(a) Hundreds.
(b) Thousands.
(c) 300.
(d) 105.

4. In The Investigator, when was the cholera outbreak that made curing cholera one of the most urgent medical riddles of the time?
(a) 1853-1854.
(b) 1848-1849.
(c) 1851-1852.
(d) 1846-1847.

5. In the chapter that takes place on September 4, what corpses were disturbed when the new sewers were built?
(a) Victims of a cholera outbreak in 1840.
(b) Night-soil.
(c) Old graveyard.
(d) Victims of the Great Plague of 1665.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first Englishman to die from cholera in Britain?

2. When was Henry Whitehead offered a position at St. Luke's?

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

4. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how long after the Lewis baby fell ill did life in Golden Square continue as usual?

5. When did Snow propose a theory that an agent that victims ingested was the cause of cholera?

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