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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Nine: A Delicate Situation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many times a day would Dr. Rush administer the Ten-and-Ten or Ten-and-Fifteen Treatment?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

2. By September 5, how many of Dr. Rush's patients did he claim improved with the Ten-and-Ten treatment?
(a) 29 out of 30.
(b) 8 out of 10.
(c) 15 out of 20.
(d) 3 out of 5.

3. How many children did Clarkson have?
(a) 8.
(b) 5.
(c) 9.
(d) 7.

4. What Revolutionary War hero wrote begging Dr. Rush for his help during the 1797 yellow fever epidemic?
(a) Thaddeus Kosciusko.
(b) Crispus Attucks.
(c) Adam Monroe.
(d) Haym Solomon.

5. How many high-ranking officials of the federal government were within a day's ride of Philadelphia?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many watchmen were supposed to watch the streets of Philadelphia at night?

2. When did Clarkson ask the physicians from the College of Physicians to come to a meeting about the plague?

3. In Chapter 6 in a letter to his wife, how many patients did Dr. Rush say that he was learning had died every morning?

4. What was Charles Willson Peale's wife's name?

5. What was the name of the doctor who had studied yellow fever, but never seen it?

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