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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. How many people lived in Philadelphia in 1793?
(a) 51,000.
(b) 33,000.
(c) 48,000.
(d) 72,000.

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

3. How many died on September 8?
(a) 51.
(b) 38.
(c) 64.
(d) 42.

4. What was Catherine LeMaigre's husband's name?
(a) William.
(b) Peter.
(c) Thomas.
(d) Andrew.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what part of the state house building were the rooms of Joseph Fry, the doorkeeper who died from the fever?

2. Where did the sloop Amelia come from?

3. What day of the week did Catherine LeMaigre die?

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

5. How many humors did physicians believe there were in the human body?

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