View a FREE sample

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 The Night-Soil Men, what did the pure-finders collect?
(a) Human feces.
(b) Horse feces.
(c) Rat feces.
(d) Dog feces.

2. What did Whithead mix Broad Street water with at the end of The Investigator?
(a) Brandy.
(b) Limes.
(c) Whisky.
(d) Lemons.

3. Who designed Regent Street to connect Marylebone Park wit the Prince Regent's new home at Carlton House?
(a) David Withers.
(b) Andrew Smythe.
(c) William Marlboro.
(d) John Nash.

4. When did cholera first appear in New York City?
(a) 1837.
(b) 1843.
(c) 1841.
(d) 1832.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1842, what was the average age of death for the well-to-do male?

2. By September 4, how many workers at the Lion Brewery had contracted cholera?

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

4. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how many citizens were inmates at the St. James Workhouse?

5. Which of Charles Dickens' novels had scene a where a team of toshers took coins from a corpse?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 166 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample