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

2. In All Smell is Disease, how did John Snow spend September 5?
(a) Looking for patterns.
(b) Taking water samples to a chemist.
(c) Treating patients.
(d) Analyzing water samples.

3. What did Farr give Snow when he visited the Registrar-General's office?
(a) Names and address of those who died.
(b) Advance copies of the number calculated for the next week.
(c) Names of those who recovered.
(d) List of victims.

4. In All Smell Is Disease, what was the lifespan of some of the men who worked in the sewers?
(a) 30-40.
(b) 60-80.
(c) 50-60.
(d) 40-50.

5. In The Investigator, when was the cholera outbreak that made curing cholera one of the most urgent medical riddles of the time?
(a) 1853-1854.
(b) 1851-1852.
(c) 1848-1849.
(d) 1846-1847.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Queen Victoria inhale chloroform when she had her eighth child?

2. When did Thomas and Sarah Lewis's infant daughter become sick?

3. When did Edwin Chadwick publish his study of sanitation among the laboring classes?

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

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

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