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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Four: Confusion, Distress, and Utter Desolation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year was a French watercolor done to show a yellow fever victim in the early stages of the illness?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1819.
(c) 1796.
(d) 1751.

2. How many people who contracted yellow fever usually died from it?
(a) 25 percent.
(b) 75 percent.
(c) 50 percent.
(d) 10 percent.

3. How old was Benjamin Rush in 1793?
(a) 54.
(b) 39.
(c) 61.
(d) 47.

4. What did doctors give Catherine LeMaigre to cool her fever?
(a) Mercury and the root of a poisonous plant.
(b) Cold cloths.
(c) Ice chips.
(d) Barley water and apple water.

5. In what part of the state house building were the rooms of Joseph Fry, the doorkeeper who died from the fever?
(a) South.
(b) North.
(c) East.
(d) West.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many physicians were in Philadelphia in 1793?

3. How many died on September 8?

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

5. To Catherine LeMaigre, what part of her body did she feel as though it was burning up?

(see the answer key)

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