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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 Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, with whom did Henry Whitehead share a room?
(a) Cousin.
(b) Grandfather.
(c) Father.
(d) Brother.

2. When did the Earl of Craven purchase a block of land called Soho Field?
(a) 1811.
(b) 1709.
(c) 1665.
(d) 1594.

3. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, what day of the week did the Eley brothers take a bottle of water from the Broad Street pump to their mother?
(a) Thursday.
(b) Wednesday.
(c) Tuesday.
(d) Monday.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Epilogue, from which of Jane Jacobs' books does the author quote a passage?

2. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how many sheep would the main livestock market at Smithfield regularly sell in two days?

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

4. What did Farr give Snow when he visited the Registrar-General's office?

5. In The Investigator, how many blocks were ravished by cholera?

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