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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 Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, what had been the temperature for several straight days?
(a) 60s.
(b) 80s.
(c) 90s.
(d) 70s.

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

3. In The Night-Soil Men, what did the toshers wear?
(a) Velveteen coats.
(b) Waders.
(c) Corduroy jackets.
(d) Leather boots.

4. About how many people were part of the London scavengers in The Night-Soil Men?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 80,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 100,000.

5. When did Snow propose a theory that an agent that victims ingested was the cause of cholera?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1849.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1851.

Short Answer Questions

1. By Sunday morning, how many people had died in the last 24hours?

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

3. In The Night-Soil Men, how many corpses were packed into a burial ground in Islington?

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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