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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Ghost Map.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the Board of Health have put on the streets in All Smell is Disease?
(a) Bleach.
(b) Chloride of lime.
(c) Water and bleach.
(d) Salt.

3. In The Ghost Map, when did John Snow begin working on his first map of the Broad Street outbreak?
(a) Fall 1854.
(b) Fall 1855.
(c) Spring 1855.
(d) Spring 1854.

4. In The Night-Soil Men, what did the pure-finders collect?
(a) Human feces.
(b) Rat feces.
(c) Dog feces.
(d) Horse feces.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When long ago were composting pits used by the citizens of Knossos?

2. In The Pump Handle, when did the board of governors of St. James Parish hold an emergency meeting?

3. In All Smell is Disease, how many people died in the cholera outbreak of 1848-1849?

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

5. In Building the Case as Snow survey the Golden Square neighborhood, how many deaths lay outside the boundary line of Snow's map?

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