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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 bleedings did the Free African Society perform?
(a) About 500.
(b) 750.
(c) Over 800.
(d) 600.

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

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

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

5. Whose letter did Dr. Rush find in his old medical books about the yellow plagues that had occurred in Virginia about fifty years earlier?
(a) Charles Neece.
(b) John Mitchell.
(c) Byant Whitcomb.
(d) Davis Miller.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many weeks did Henry Knox spend in quarantine?

2. How many times a day did Charles Willson Peale fire a musket inside his house?

3. After Dr. Rush seemed to be cured of yellow fever, how many patients sought him in a day?

4. How many pounds of blood did Dr. Rush and other doctors at that time believe that the human body held?

5. During the plague, how many days might it take for a letter to be sent to or from Philadelphia?

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