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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 representatives met at the state house on August 27?
(a) 23.
(b) 36.
(c) 41.
(d) 18.

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

3. When was the last time that there was a yellow fever epidemic?
(a) 1762.
(b) 1719.
(c) 1784.
(d) 1684,

4. For how many days did Peter Helm and Stephen Girard attend to Bush HIll?
(a) 40 days.
(b) 70 days.
(c) 60 days.
(d) 50 days.

5. How many times a day would Dr. Rush administer the Ten-and-Ten or Ten-and-Fifteen Treatment?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did federal department heads move their offices?

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

3. How long had medical professionals believed that disease was caused by body humors being out of balance?

4. How much did some whites charge to put a corpse in a coffin and haul it to a waiting wagon?

5. Who had President Washington put in charge when he left Philadelphia?

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