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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 was Edwin Chadwick appointed to the Poor Law Commission?
(a) 1829.
(b) 1832.
(c) 1827.
(d) 1831.

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 Ghost Map, in 1854, how much of your neighborhood did the author say might die in London if you left town for a weekend?
(a) 20%.
(b) 5%.
(c) 15%.
(d) 10%.

4. On September 4, what did Whitehead hear residents blaming as the cause of the cholera outbreak?
(a) Water.
(b) Stench in the air.
(c) Cesspools.
(d) New sewers.

5. In The Pump Handle, for what age children was getting water from the Broad Street pump a common chore?
(a) Any child older than 6 or 7.
(b) Any child older than 8.
(c) Any child older than 9 or 10.
(d) Any child older than 11.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1843, where did a proposal want to have cast-iron sewers transport waste?

2. When did Thomas and Sarah Lewis's infant daughter become sick?

3. By the end of the 1800s, how much teas was imported to England?

4. In 1854, how much of the population of earth lived in cities?

5. How many pages of "Sedgwick's Principles of Sanitary Science and Public Health" mention the Board of Health verdict of the Broad Street outbreak?

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