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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Ten: Improvements and the Public Gratitude.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did Jones and Allen discover a house where the mother was dead, the father was dying, and the children were huddled together, frightened and hungry?
(a) Main St.
(b) Water St.
(c) Emsley's Alley.
(d) Beckett's Allley.

3. What did A.B., a contributor to "Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser," find in rainwater barrels?
(a) Garbage.
(b) Dead dogs.
(c) Mosquitoes.
(d) Dead cats.

4. How much did a jury award Dr. Rush including court costs when he sued Cobbett for libel?
(a) $12,000.
(b) $10,000.
(c) $8,000.
(d) $23,000.

5. What were the sewers called in Philadelphia?
(a) Sinks.
(b) Canals.
(c) Trenches.
(d) Cesspools.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Dr. Rush apply to become a member of the medical faculty?

2. How often would Catherine LeMaigre vomit?

3. In which direction were the swamps near Philadelphia that had lost water due to the intense heat?

4. When did Dr. Jean Deveze volunteer to work at Bush Hill?

5. What church in Philadelphia had been built with the help of blacks?

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