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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, what city is the greenest community in the United States, and one of the greenest cities on the planet?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Denver.
(c) New York.
(d) Chicago.

2. In The Night-Soil Men, how long would it take a bone-picker go go over his rounds?
(a) 10 hours.
(b) 6-8 hours.
(c) 5 hours.
(d) 7-9 hours.

3. In the Epilogue, in the one acre area that the Twin Towers occupied, what was the working population on a weekday?
(a) 17,000.
(b) 1,200.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 85,000.

4. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, with whom did Susannah Eley share a bottle of water from the Broad Street pump?
(a) Niece.
(b) Cousin.
(c) Neighbor.
(d) Daughter.

5. At the beginning of All Smell is Disease, how many people did Whitehead see recover?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1854, how long did some people complain that it took a letter to reach its destination in letters written to editors of newspapers?

2. In The Ghost Map, how many miles of sewers were constructed by Bazalgette and his team?

3. In The Night-Soil Men, how many corpses were packed into a burial ground in Islington?

4. How old was Snow when he read John Frank Newton's 1811 manifesto "The Return to Nature: A Defense of the Vegetable Regimen"?

5. In All Smell Is Disease, what was the lifespan of some of the men who worked in the sewers?

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