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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 Henry Whitehead offered a position at St. Luke's?
(a) 1851.
(b) 1849.
(c) 1853.
(d) 1847.

2. Who was the first Englishman to die from cholera in Britain?
(a) John James.
(b) David Morris.
(c) Peter Franklin.
(d) William Sproat.

3. In The Night-Soil Men, what hours did the night-soil men work?
(a) 11 p.m. to 4 a.m.
(b) 1 a.m. to 6 a.m.
(c) 10 p.m. to 3 a.m.
(d) Midnight to 5 a.m.

4. What did John Snow's father do for a living?
(a) Laborer.
(b) Grocer.
(c) Professor.
(d) Blacksmith.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Snow propose a theory that an agent that victims ingested was the cause of cholera?

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

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

4. When was The Long Epidemiological Society founded?

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

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