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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote a letter asking the Free African Society to nurse the sick and attend to the dead?
(a) Richard Allen.
(b) Benjamin Rush.
(c) Matthew Clarkson.
(d) Absalom Jones.

2. How many people do historians estimate fled from Philadelphia during the fever?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 35,000.
(c) 15,000.
(d) 30,000.

3. What did doctors give Catherine LeMaigre to cool her fever?
(a) Ice chips.
(b) Mercury and the root of a poisonous plant.
(c) Cold cloths.
(d) Barley water and apple water.

4. About how many free blacks lived in Philadelphia?
(a) 3,000.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 2,300.
(d) 1,700.

5. To Catherine LeMaigre, what part of her body did she feel as though it was burning up?
(a) Stomach.
(b) Face.
(c) Head.
(d) Back.

Short Answer Questions

1. When had Dr. Rush seen a similar sickness before?

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

3. How many of his children did Charles Willson Peale shut inside his museum-residence along with himself and his wife?

4. How many groups in Philadelphia stepped forward and offered to help with the sick and deceased?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In her journal, what did Elizabeth Drinker say about the fever on August 28?

2. What type of medical training did Dr. Benjamin Rush have?

3. Why did the members of the Pennsylvania legislature become fearful two days after they began meeting at the statehouse?

4. What were the main reasons why people stayed in the city during the plague?

5. What did Dr. Benjamin Duffield recommend be done to deal with the fever?

6. Describe Matthew Clarkson's upbringing and career.

7. Why were the black nurses criticized?

8. What types of services did the Free African Society perform for the sick?

9. Why was a constitutional crisis set in motion when Washington left Philadelphia?

10. Why was there a stench originating from Ball's Wharf?

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