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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. 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) William Marlboro.
(d) Andrew Smythe.

2. In 1854 if a letter was sent by mail at 9 a.m., when would the recipient across town receive it?
(a) 1 p.m.
(b) 10 a.m.
(c) 2 p.m.
(d) Noon.

3. By September 4, how many workers at the Lion Brewery had contracted cholera?
(a) 15.
(b) 11.
(c) 0.
(d) 20.

4. How old was Snow when he read John Frank Newton's 1811 manifesto "The Return to Nature: A Defense of the Vegetable Regimen"?
(a) 15.
(b) 17.
(c) 20.
(d) 12.

5. In 1854, how long did some people complain that it took a letter to reach its destination in letters written to editors of newspapers?
(a) 5 hours.
(b) 7 hours.
(c) 8 hours.
(d) 6 hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Investigator, when was the cholera outbreak that made curing cholera one of the most urgent medical riddles of the time?

2. In 1851 in the subdistrict of Berwick Street, how many people were there per acre of land?

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

4. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, what day of the week did the Eley brothers take a bottle of water from the Broad Street pump to their mother?

5. In The Investigator in 1848 on what steamer did John Harnold work as a crewman?

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