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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. What doctor wrote about the disgusting aspects of the vomit that spewed from fever victims?
(a) Benjamin Rush.
(b) William Lewis.
(c) Walter Reed.
(d) Isaac Cathrall.

2. What was the largest city in North America in 1793?
(a) Charlestown.
(b) Trenton.
(c) Philadelphia.
(d) New York.

3. Where did Dolley Payne Todd go during the fever outbreak?
(a) Providence.
(b) Germantown.
(c) Gray's Ferry.
(d) Camden.

4. When Israel Israel finally won an election of Pennsylvania state legislature, by how many votes did he win?
(a) 328.
(b) 38.
(c) 412.
(d) 59.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many blacks were Jones and Allen in direct contact with who might have helped tend the sick?

3. How many bundles of shirts and dresses for orphans were sent by the Widow Grubb?

4. How many physicians from the College of Physicians showed up when Matthew Clarkson called a meeting?

5. How often would Catherine LeMaigre vomit?

(see the answer key)

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