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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. In Chapter 6 in a letter to his wife, how many patients did Dr. Rush say that he was learning had died every morning?
(a) 2-3.
(b) 3-4.
(c) 4-5.
(d) 6-7.

2. By the time Dr. Rush contracted yellow fever, how many doctors had died?
(a) 5.
(b) 7.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.

3. What Revolutionary War hero wrote begging Dr. Rush for his help during the 1797 yellow fever epidemic?
(a) Crispus Attucks.
(b) Adam Monroe.
(c) Thaddeus Kosciusko.
(d) Haym Solomon.

4. When was the last time that there was a yellow fever epidemic?
(a) 1719.
(b) 1762.
(c) 1684,
(d) 1784.

5. What was the name of the doctor who had studied yellow fever, but never seen it?
(a) Dr. Benjamin Rush.
(b) Dr. William Currie.
(c) Dr. Samuel Griffitts.
(d) Dr. Benjamin Duffield.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many watchmen were supposed to watch the streets of Philadelphia at night?

2. Who had President Washington put in charge when he left Philadelphia?

3. What did A.B., a contributor to "Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser," find in rainwater barrels?

4. For how many years had doctors been using bloodletting or phlebotomy?

5. When did Dr. Rush realize that he had yellow fever?

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