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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Ghost Map.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1842 in Bethnal Green was was the average life expectancy for the working poor?
(a) 21.
(b) 19.
(c) 34.
(d) 16.

2. In The Pump Handle, how many people living within 250 yards of the Broad Street pump died in less than two weeks?
(a) 550.
(b) 700.
(c) 430.
(d) 610.

3. In The Pump Handle, as Whitehead tracked down residents who left the neighborhood, how many was he able to find?
(a) 386.
(b) 529.
(c) 281.
(d) 497.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Pump Handle, for what age children was getting water from the Broad Street pump a common chore?

2. In the chapter that takes place on September 4, what corpses were disturbed when the new sewers were built?

3. How many pages of "Sedgwick's Principles of Sanitary Science and Public Health" mention the Board of Health verdict of the Broad Street outbreak?

4. During the cholera outbreak of 1831, what group of individuals did Snow treat?

5. When did the Earl of Craven purchase a block of land called Soho Field?

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