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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 was the first demonstration of ether in Boston?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1847.
(d) 1846.

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

3. In the year 1000, how many people lived in Rome?
(a) 90,000.
(b) 35,000.
(c) 85,000.
(d) 100,000.

4. In The Investigator, how many blocks were ravished by cholera?
(a) 8 square blocks.
(b) 3 square blocks.
(c) 5 square blocks.
(d) 7 square blocks.

5. On September 4, in the three days since the outbreak, how many residents of well-to-do houses had died?
(a) Third.
(b) Quarter.
(c) Eighth.
(d) Half.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Night-Soil Men, how far would a bone-picker travel?

2. By September 4, how many workers at the Eley Brothers factory had gotten cholera?

3. When was The Long Epidemiological Society founded?

4. How many men were on a team of night-soil workers?

5. When did Thomas Latta come up with a water cure for cholera?

(see the answer key)

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