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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eleven: A Modern-Day Time Bomb.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many blacks were Jones and Allen in direct contact with who might have helped tend the sick?
(a) 150.
(b) 250.
(c) 300.
(d) 350.

2. Which member of the special committee was in charge of providing food for the city?
(a) Samuel Benge.
(b) Henry Deforest.
(c) James Sharswood.
(d) Israel Israel.

3. A few days before being called to care for Catherine LeMaigre, which doctor had lost his daughter to the same fever?
(a) Dr. Rush.
(b) Dr. Foulke.
(c) Dr. Hodge.
(d) Dr. Wyatt.

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

5. What decorated houses where people were sick from the yellow fever?
(a) Tiny red flags.
(b) A notice from the city.
(c) Small blue stars.
(d) A skull and crossbones.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Dr. Deveze in 1793?

2. In which direction were the swamps near Philadelphia that had lost water due to the intense heat?

3. Of what type of church was Reverend John Schmidt a pastor?

4. When did Stephen Girard contract a mild case of yellow fever?

5. How old was Stephen Girard in 1793?

(see the answer key)

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