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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. When did Matthew Clarkson become mayor of Philadelphia?
(a) 1792.
(b) 1790.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1791.

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

3. What was the name of the doctor who had studied yellow fever, but never seen it?
(a) Dr. William Currie.
(b) Dr. Benjamin Rush.
(c) Dr. Samuel Griffitts.
(d) Dr. Benjamin Duffield.

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

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) 6-7.
(b) 4-5.
(c) 2-3.
(d) 3-4.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the time Dr. Rush contracted yellow fever, how many doctors had died?

2. How many patients did Dr. Rush's five assistants each see in one day after Dr. Rush's recovery?

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

4. For how many years had doctors been using bloodletting or phlebotomy?

5. What was the occupation of a man named Mr. Brooks who reopened his shop on October 31 and died of yellow fever on November 3?

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