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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue: Broad Street Revisted.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Epilogue, how many births in cities take place in hospital or medical institutions?
(a) 80%.
(b) 90%.
(c) 70%.
(d) 35%.

2. In The Night-Soil Men, what year was it?
(a) 1841.
(b) 1862.
(c) 1854.
(d) 1839.

3. In the Epilogue, if ten people were infected with "Ebola" in downtown Manhattan, how many people might be killed?
(a) 3.5 million.
(b) A million or more.
(c) 2 million.
(d) About 1 1/2 million.

4. What did Whithead mix Broad Street water with at the end of The Investigator?
(a) Brandy.
(b) Limes.
(c) Whisky.
(d) Lemons.

5. In the chapter that takes place on September 4, what corpses were disturbed when the new sewers were built?
(a) Night-soil.
(b) Victims of the Great Plague of 1665.
(c) Old graveyard.
(d) Victims of a cholera outbreak in 1840.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Florence Nightingale write her "Notes on Nursing"?

2. In the year 1000, how many people lived in Rome?

3. In the Epilogue, what birthrates are Italy, Russia, Spain, and Japan seeing per woman?

4. In The Ghost Map, in what publication did an unsigned editorial appear that lambasted Snow's waterborne theory of cholera?

5. Which of Charles Dickens' novels had scene a where a team of toshers took coins from a corpse?

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