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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Friday, September 8: The Pump Handle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Queen Victoria decide to give chloroform a try?
(a) 1874.
(b) 1853.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1842.

2. In The Pump Handle, how many cases of cholera were reported on Saturday morning according to The Globe?
(a) 9 or 10.
(b) 7 or 8.
(c) 8.
(d) 11.

3. According to Mayhew in 1845, how many ships hauled animal manure to England?
(a) 683.
(b) 549.
(c) 311.
(d) 281.

4. What did Farr give Snow when he visited the Registrar-General's office?
(a) Advance copies of the number calculated for the next week.
(b) Names and address of those who died.
(c) Names of those who recovered.
(d) List of victims.

5. In All Smell Is Disease, when was a study done that discovered that strong smells triggered activity in the amygdala and the ventral insula of the brain?
(a) 2003.
(b) 1976.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1998.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Edwin Chadwick appointed to the Poor Law Commission?

2. When did Edwin Chadwick publish his study of sanitation among the laboring classes?

3. When did Snow earn his bachelor of medicine degree from the University of London?

4. In The Pump Handle, how many people living within 250 yards of the Broad Street pump died in less than two weeks?

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

(see the answer key)

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