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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Five: It Was Our Duty.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the second-year medical student who volunteered to help at Bush Hill?
(a) Charles Caldwell.
(b) Isaac Hayes.
(c) Mason Davidson.
(d) Edward Franklin.

2. What type of church did Rev. J. Henry C. Helmuth pastor?
(a) Presbyterian.
(b) Lutheran.
(c) Episcopal.
(d) Congregational.

3. In what boarding house did a sailor die of a fever?
(a) Sarah Smythe's.
(b) William Wright's.
(c) Maggie MacPherson's.
(d) Richard Denny's.

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

5. What illness was seen in January of 1793?
(a) Scarlet fever.
(b) Influenza.
(c) Measles.
(d) Mumps.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money was donated to refugees from Santo Domingo?

2. How many died on September 8?

3. In what part of the state house building were the rooms of Joseph Fry, the doorkeeper who died from the fever?

4. How many children did Clarkson have?

5. How many times a day did Charles Willson Peale fire a musket inside his house?

(see the answer key)

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