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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 "Sedgwick's Principles of Sanitary Science and Public Health", how many pages are devoted to the Broad Street outbreak?
(a) 10.
(b) 12.
(c) 9.
(d) 11.

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

3. In The Ghost Map, how many miles of sewers were constructed by Bazalgette and his team?
(a) 68.
(b) 94.
(c) 82.
(d) 59.

4. In 1843, where did a proposal want to have cast-iron sewers transport waste?
(a) Surrey.
(b) Shropshire.
(c) Cumbria and Suffolk.
(d) Kent and Essex.

5. When was Edwin Chadwick appointed to the Poor Law Commission?
(a) 1832.
(b) 1829.
(c) 1831.
(d) 1827.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Night-Soil Men, what did the toshers wear?

2. In The Investigator in 1848 on what steamer did John Harnold work as a crewman?

3. When did the Earl of Craven purchase a block of land called Soho Field?

4. How long did London remain the manufacturing center of England?

5. In The Night-Soil Men, how long would it take a bone-picker go go over his rounds?

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