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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. When did Snow's paper on the use of arsenic in the preservation of cadavers appeared in "The Lancet"?
(a) 1841.
(b) 1839.
(c) 1840.
(d) 1838.

2. In All Smell is Disease, when did Benjamin become president of the Board of Health?
(a) July 11.
(b) July 8.
(c) August 29.
(d) August 18.

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

4. In Building the Case, how many quarts of water did a girl say she had drunk from the Broad Street pump during her successful attempt to fight off the disease?
(a) 9.
(b) 17.
(c) 2.
(d) 15.

5. At number 10 Cross Street, who lived with a tailor in his single room in Building the Case?
(a) 4 children.
(b) Wife and 2 children.
(c) Mother, wife, and 3 children.
(d) 5 children.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, with whom did Susannah Eley share a bottle of water from the Broad Street pump?

2. In The Pump Handle, when did Snow give Whitehead a copy of his monograph?

3. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how many workers did the Lion Brewery on Broad Street employ?

4. 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?

5. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how far did the Broad Street Pump extend below the surface of the street?

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