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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Dr. Jean Deveze volunteer to work at Bush Hill?
(a) September 16.
(b) September 1.
(c) August 31.
(d) August 25.

2. How many cords of wood did a subcommittee obtain before winter set in?
(a) 300.
(b) 600.
(c) 400.
(d) 500.

3. What was the name of William Cobbett's paper?
(a) The Daily Prophet.
(b) The Porcupine's Gazette.
(c) The Eagle's Courier.
(d) The Daily News.

4. When Rush contracted yellow fever again, how many days did he spend confined to bed unable to lift his head?
(a) 7.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

5. What newspaper was printed occasionally by September?
(a) Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
(b) National Gazette.
(c) Federal Gazette.
(d) Philadelphia Chronicle.

6. What was the occupation of a man named Mr. Brooks who reopened his shop on October 31 and died of yellow fever on November 3?
(a) Cabinetmaker.
(b) Blacksmith.
(c) Silversmith.
(d) Apothecary.

7. Where did Dolley Payne Todd go during the fever outbreak?
(a) Camden.
(b) Germantown.
(c) Providence.
(d) Gray's Ferry.

8. Where was a Philadelphia woman and her black servant tarred and feathered?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) New Jersey.
(c) Milford, Delaware.
(d) Manhattan, New York.

9. How much more did the committee spend than it had received in donations?
(a) $3,245.12.
(b) $12,194.05.
(c) $1,439.17.
(d) $5,312.11.

10. In the 1700s, what was often prescribed to break a slight fever?
(a) Herb tea.
(b) Brandy.
(c) Lemonade.
(d) Milk.

11. When was someone hired to design and construct Philadelphia's first waterworks?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1801.
(c) 1812.
(d) 1795.

12. 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) Byant Whitcomb.
(d) John Mitchell.

13. Where did Major Christian Piercy become ill as he fled Philadelphia?
(a) Outside Camden.
(b) Near Manhatton.
(c) Baltimore.
(d) Concord.

14. How many bundles of shirts and dresses for orphans were sent by the Widow Grubb?
(a) 18.
(b) 16.
(c) 12.
(d) 14.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Thomas Jefferson and George Washington meet as they traveled toward Philadelphia?

2. How many whale oil streetlamps were in Philadelphia in 1793?

3. On what day did the death toll fall below thirty?

4. When did Dr. Rush hire a horse-drawn carriage and begin visiting patients after his bout with yellow fever?

5. When Israel Israel finally won an election of Pennsylvania state legislature, by how many votes did he win?

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