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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On September 4, in the three days since the outbreak, how many residents of well-to-do houses had died?
(a) Half.
(b) Third.
(c) Quarter.
(d) Eighth.

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

3. In That Is to Say, Jo Has Not Yet Died, who went up in a hot-air balloon to examine the entire city of London?
(a) David Watson.
(b) Robert Phillips.
(c) Richard Andrews.
(d) Henry Mayhew.

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

5. Which of Charles Dickens' novels had scene a where a team of toshers took coins from a corpse?
(a) Little Dorrit.
(b) Out Mutual Friend.
(c) Bleak House.
(d) Hard Times.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mayhew in 1845, how many ships hauled animal manure to England?

2. In Building the Case, what part of the body was affected by cholera?

3. In All Smell is Disease, up until what date was it illegal to discharge raw waste into the sewers?

4. In 1851 in the subdistrict of Berwick Street, how many people were there per acre of land?

5. In The Ghost Map, how many days after suffering a stroke, did Snow die?

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