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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Two: All Was Not Right.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did physicians call the tiny reddish sores that erupted on individuals who had the plague?
(a) Petechiae.
(b) Purpura.
(c) Stigma.
(d) Odium.

2. After a sailor died in a boarding house, who was the next person to die?
(a) Mrs. Richard Parkinson.
(b) Mr. Peter Aston.
(c) Mr. Denny.
(d) Mr. Moore.

3. How many people who contracted yellow fever usually died from it?
(a) 75 percent.
(b) 25 percent.
(c) 10 percent.
(d) 50 percent.

4. How many people died in two houses on the same street during one week?
(a) 15.
(b) 2.
(c) 8.
(d) 4.

5. What year was a French watercolor done to show a yellow fever victim in the early stages of the illness?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1751.
(c) 1819.
(d) 1796.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Catherine LeMaigre's husband's name?

2. How many French refugees fled a fierce slave rebellion?

3. What type of church did Rev. J. Henry C. Helmuth pastor?

4. How old was Catherine LeMaigre when she became ill?

5. In what boarding house did a sailor die of a fever?

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