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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Nine: A Delicate Situation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Thomas Jefferson and George Washington meet as they traveled toward Philadelphia?
(a) Baltimore.
(b) Manhattan.
(c) Concord.
(d) Boston.

2. When did Clarkson ask the physicians from the College of Physicians to come to a meeting about the plague?
(a) August 19.
(b) August 14.
(c) August 25.
(d) August 28.

3. How many watchmen were supposed to watch the streets of Philadelphia at night?
(a) 23.
(b) 16.
(c) 37.
(d) 41.

4. Whose letter did Dr. Rush find in his old medical books about the yellow plagues that had occurred in Virginia about fifty years earlier?
(a) John Mitchell.
(b) Byant Whitcomb.
(c) Charles Neece.
(d) Davis Miller.

5. What ship was seized by one of Genet's hired privateers?
(a) Boyne.
(b) Roehampton.
(c) Alpha.
(d) Adventure.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many pounds of blood did Dr. Rush and other doctors at that time believe that the human body held?

2. How many of his children did Charles Willson Peale shut inside his museum-residence along with himself and his wife?

3. How many weeks did Henry Knox spend in quarantine?

4. How many patients did Dr. Rush's five assistants each see in one day after Dr. Rush's recovery?

5. By the time Dr. Rush contracted yellow fever, how many doctors had died?

(see the answer key)

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