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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Building the Case, how many quarts of Broad Street water did a boy tell Whitehead he had drunk from the Broad Street pump?
(a) 10.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

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

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

4. In The Pump Handle, when did Snow give Whitehead a copy of his monograph?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1857.
(c) 1855.
(d) 1854.

5. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, when was the first time that cholera was known to exist on British soil?
(a) 1831.
(b) 1743.
(c) 1826.
(d) 1797.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Whitehead believe that paitent zero would have fallen ill?

2. Who was the first Englishman to die from cholera in Britain?

3. In Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue, when was the last time it had rained in London?

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

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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