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

2. What was Charles Willson Peale's wife's name?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Martha.
(c) Patience.
(d) Betsy.

3. Where did Jones and Allen discover a house where the mother was dead, the father was dying, and the children were huddled together, frightened and hungry?
(a) Beckett's Allley.
(b) Main St.
(c) Water St.
(d) Emsley's Alley.

4. What did A.B., a contributor to "Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser," find in rainwater barrels?
(a) Mosquitoes.
(b) Dead cats.
(c) Dead dogs.
(d) Garbage.

5. What did many people sprinkle around their rooms after whitewashing them?
(a) Dirt.
(b) Ashes.
(c) Vinegar.
(d) Baking soda.

Short Answer Questions

1. After a sailor died in a boarding house, who was the next person to die?

2. What were the sewers called in Philadelphia?

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

4. What doctor wrote about the disgusting aspects of the vomit that spewed from fever victims?

5. When was the Free African Society founded?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who decided that a cannon should be fired in the streets of Philadelphia at the end of August?

5. Who were the first two doctors called to see Catherine LeMaigre?

6. What did doctors base their medical thinking upon in the 1700s?

7. Why did blacks stop worshiping at St. George Methodist Church?

8. Why did Rev. J. Henry C. Helmuth believe that Philadelphia would feel God's displeasure?

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

10. What type of power did the mayor of Philadelphia have?

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