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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much did some nurses begin receiving for tending the sick?

2. How many physicians were in Philadelphia in 1793?

3. Where was Dr. Rush's wife that summer of 1793?

4. How many people do historians estimate fled from Philadelphia during the fever?

5. When was a portrait of Absalom Jones painted by Raphaelle?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Matthew Clarkson's upbringing and career.

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

3. Why didn't anyone notice when eight people died in two houses during one week at the beginning of August?

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

5. Why was Mayor Clarkson concerned about the rising number of penniless people in Philadelphia?

6. Why was the Free African Society founded?

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

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

9. What did the governor do about the plague?

10. What did most doctors in Philadelphia believe caused the sickness?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Medical practices were in flux at the end of the eighteenth century. Discuss medical practices at the time of the plague and how these practices were changing.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss duty and individuals who were or were not committed to doing their duty during the plague.

Essay Topic 3

Dr. Rush looked around the city and realized that Philadelphia itself might succumb at any moment. Discuss the factors that threatened the survival of the city.

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