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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. At the beginning of Chapter 6, about how many persons were ill with the fever?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 7,000.
(c) 8,000.
(d) 6,000.

2. How many high-ranking officials of the federal government were within a day's ride of Philadelphia?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

3. How old was the servant boy that Dr. Rush trained to open a vein and see the sick?
(a) 12.
(b) 14.
(c) 13.
(d) 11.

4. When did Dr. Rush realize that he had yellow fever?
(a) September 21.
(b) September 18.
(c) September 12.
(d) September 14.

5. 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) Charles Neece.
(b) Davis Miller.
(c) Byant Whitcomb.
(d) John Mitchell.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did President Washington leave Mount Vernon and head north?

2. Who was the governor of Maryland in 1793?

3. What did many people sprinkle around their rooms after whitewashing them?

4. When did Matthew Clarkson become mayor of Philadelphia?

5. What was Charles Willson Peale's wife's name?

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