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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. Who was the governor of Maryland in 1793?
(a) John David Smythe.
(b) Matthew Vining.
(c) Thomas Sim Lee.
(d) Bryan Andrews.

2. How many patients did Dr. Rush's five assistants each see in one day after Dr. Rush's recovery?
(a) 30.
(b) 35.
(c) 40.
(d) 25.

3. Where did Thomas Jefferson and George Washington meet as they traveled toward Philadelphia?
(a) Baltimore.
(b) Concord.
(c) Boston.
(d) Manhattan.

4. 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) Byant Whitcomb.
(c) Davis Miller.
(d) John Mitchell.

5. When did Clarkson ask the physicians from the College of Physicians to come to a meeting about the plague?
(a) August 19.
(b) August 25.
(c) August 28.
(d) August 14.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How old was Matthew Clarkson when the plague struck Philadelphia?

4. How many bleedings did the Free African Society perform?

5. How much did Thomas Jefferson estimate that it cost him to get to Germantown?

(see the answer key)

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