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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue: Broad Street Revisted.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the mid-1800s, how many firms supplied water to London?
(a) About 12.
(b) Roughly 10.
(c) 13.
(d) 20.

2. In the Epilogue, from which of Jane Jacobs' books does the author quote a passage?
(a) Death and Life of the Great American City.
(b) Dark Age Ahead.
(c) Systems of Survival.
(d) The Economy of Cities.

3. Which college did Henry Whitehead attend at Oxford?
(a) Lincoln.
(b) Kellogg.
(c) Exeter.
(d) Mansfield.

4. How old was Snow when he apprenticed to a surgeon on Newcastle-on-Tyne?
(a) 17.
(b) 14.
(c) 16.
(d) 15.

5. In The Epilogue, what was the birthrate per woman in Third World countries in the 1970s?
(a) 6.
(b) 8.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1846 what did Edwin Chadwick tell a parliamentary committee that the problem of London sewage was?

2. In The Ghost Map, when did Snow suffer a stroke?

3. At number 10 Cross Street, who lived with a tailor in his single room in Building the Case?

4. How long was the monograph titled "The Cholera in Benwick Street" that Whitehead wrote?

5. Where was St. Luke's Church located in Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue?

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