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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 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) 1846-1847.
(c) 1851-1852.
(d) 1848-1849.

2. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how man dogs did a man at 38 Silver Street keep in one room?
(a) 11.
(b) 27.
(c) 8.
(d) 3.

3. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how many citizens were inmates at the St. James Workhouse?
(a) 500.
(b) 115.
(c) 250.
(d) 475.

4. In The Investigator in 1848 on what steamer did John Harnold work as a crewman?
(a) Rosemarie.
(b) Labyrinth.
(c) Hamburg.
(d) Elbe.

5. On September 4, what did Whitehead hear residents blaming as the cause of the cholera outbreak?
(a) Water.
(b) New sewers.
(c) Cesspools.
(d) Stench in the air.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was a water-flushing device invented by Sir John Harington?

2. In The Investigator, how old is John Snow?

3. When long ago were composting pits used by the citizens of Knossos?

4. On September 4, in the three days since the outbreak, how many residents of well-to-do houses had died?

5. How old was Snow when he apprenticed to a surgeon on Newcastle-on-Tyne?

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