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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, how far did the Broad Street Pump extend below the surface of the street?
(a) 50 feet.
(b) 30 feet.
(c) 10 feet.
(d) 25 feet.

2. In The Investigator, how old is John Snow?
(a) 60.
(b) 42.
(c) 51.
(d) 39.

3. How old was Henry Whitehead in Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue?
(a) 28.
(b) 54.
(c) 42.
(d) 31.

4. 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) Tuesday.
(b) Thursday.
(c) Wednesday.
(d) Monday.

5. On September 4, in the three days since the outbreak, how many residents of well-to-do houses had died?
(a) Quarter.
(b) Eighth.
(c) Half.
(d) Third.

6. How long of a pole did toshers carry in The Night-Soil Men?
(a) 7 foot.
(b) 6 foot.
(c) 8 foot.
(d) 5 foot.

7. How long did London remain the manufacturing center of England?
(a) Until 1855.
(b) Until 1850.
(c) Until 1835.
(d) Until 1845.

8. When long ago were composting pits used by the citizens of Knossos?
(a) 4,500 years.
(b) 4,000 years.
(c) 8,000 years.
(d) 7,500 years.

9. When did doctors begin recommending chloroform for the discomfort of childbirth?
(a) 1850s.
(b) 1860s.
(c) 1840s.
(d) 1870s.

10. When did Thomas and Sarah Lewis's infant daughter become sick?
(a) August 28, 1854.
(b) August 30, 1854.
(c) August 5, 1854.
(d) August 1, 1854.

11. In 1854 if a letter was sent by mail at 9 a.m., when would the recipient across town receive it?
(a) 2 p.m.
(b) 10 a.m.
(c) 1 p.m.
(d) Noon.

12. Which of Charles Dickens' novels had scene a where a team of toshers took coins from a corpse?
(a) Out Mutual Friend.
(b) Little Dorrit.
(c) Bleak House.
(d) Hard Times.

13. At the beginning of The Night-Soil Men, what river would the toshers wade through the muck of low tide?
(a) Cray.
(b) Lea.
(c) Darent.
(d) Thames.

14. When did cholera first appear in New York City?
(a) 1837.
(b) 1841.
(c) 1843.
(d) 1832.

15. In 1850, how many gallons of water a day were used by the average London household?
(a) 160.
(b) 75.
(c) 150.
(d) 90.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did John Snow's father do for a living?

2. When did Thomas Latta come up with a water cure for cholera?

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

4. In 1854, what was the population of London?

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

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