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

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

3. In 1842 in Bethnal Green was was the average life expectancy for the working poor?
(a) 21.
(b) 19.
(c) 16.
(d) 34.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the year 1000, how many people lived in Rome?

2. By Sunday morning, how many people were on the edge of death?

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

4. How long did London remain the manufacturing center of England?

5. When did doctors begin recommending chloroform for the discomfort of childbirth?

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