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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Monday, September 4: That Is to Say, Jo Has Not Yet Died.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the cholera outbreak of 1831, what group of individuals did Snow treat?
(a) Miners.
(b) Elderly.
(c) Children.
(d) Sailors.

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

3. In The Investigator, how many blocks were ravished by cholera?
(a) 3 square blocks.
(b) 5 square blocks.
(c) 8 square blocks.
(d) 7 square blocks.

4. In The Investigator in 1848 on what steamer did John Harnold work as a crewman?
(a) Labyrinth.
(b) Elbe.
(c) Rosemarie.
(d) Hamburg.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Snow when he apprenticed to a surgeon on Newcastle-on-Tyne?

2. In That Is To Say, Jo Has Not Yet Died, how long did it take the newapapers to report the cholera outbreak?

3. When was The Long Epidemiological Society founded?

4. In That Is to Say, Jo Has Not Yet Died, who went up in a hot-air balloon to examine the entire city of London?

5. By September 4, how many workers at the Eley Brothers factory had gotten cholera?

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