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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 weeks did Henry Knox spend in quarantine?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 4 weeks.
(c) 1 week.
(d) 3 weeks.

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

3. How many physicians from the College of Physicians showed up when Matthew Clarkson called a meeting?
(a) 34.
(b) 16.
(c) 25.
(d) 48.

4. How much did Thomas Jefferson estimate that it cost him to get to Germantown?
(a) $5.
(b) $15.
(c) $80.
(d) $45.

5. In Chapter 6 in a letter to his wife, how many patients did Dr. Rush say that he was learning had died every morning?
(a) 3-4.
(b) 2-3.
(c) 6-7.
(d) 4-5.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Whose letter did Dr. Rush find in his old medical books about the yellow plagues that had occurred in Virginia about fifty years earlier?

4. Who had President Washington put in charge when he left Philadelphia?

5. When was the last time that there was a yellow fever epidemic?

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