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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. What ship was seized by one of Genet's hired privateers?
(a) Boyne.
(b) Alpha.
(c) Adventure.
(d) Roehampton.

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

3. After Dr. Rush seemed to be cured of yellow fever, how many patients sought him in a day?
(a) 200.
(b) 150.
(c) 75.
(d) 100.

4. During the plague, how many days might it take for a letter to be sent to or from Philadelphia?
(a) 10-14 days.
(b) 17 days.
(c) 3-6 days.
(d) 8 days.

5. How many people do historians estimate fled from Philadelphia during the fever?
(a) 15,000.
(b) 30,000.
(c) 35,000.
(d) 20,000.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did George Washington make a personal inspection of Philadelphia?

3. What did many people sprinkle around their rooms after whitewashing them?

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

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?

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