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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Wednesday, September 6: Building the Case.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In The Night-Soil Men, how many corpses were packed into a burial ground in Islington?
(a) 15,000.
(b) 80,000.
(c) 55,000.
(d) 30,000.

2. How old was Snow when he apprenticed to a surgeon on Newcastle-on-Tyne?
(a) 16.
(b) 17.
(c) 15.
(d) 14.

3. In 1854, where was the scientist from who discovered a small comma-shaped organism in the intestinal mucosa of a cholera victim?
(a) France.
(b) Spain.
(c) Germany.
(d) Italy.

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

5. In The Investigator, how old is John Snow?
(a) 60.
(b) 42.
(c) 39.
(d) 51.

Short Answer Questions

1. When long ago were composting pits used by the citizens of Knossos?

2. In 1842 in Bethnal Green was was the average life expectancy for the working poor?

3. In All Smell is Disease, how did John Snow spend September 5?

4. In The Night-Soil Men, what did the pure-finders collect?

5. In Building the Case, of the 83 deaths recorded on Farr's list, how many of those were in houses that were closer to the Broad Street pump than any other water source?

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