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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. Who wrote that Death was riding triumphant on a pale horse at the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) Martin Whitcomb.
(b) Anderson Ryan.
(c) Evan Manning.
(d) Elhanan Winchester.

2. Who lent his house to George and Martha Washington?
(a) Matthew Clarkson
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Benjamin Rush.
(d) Robert Morris.

3. When did the Black Plague strike in England?
(a) 1664.
(b) 1721.
(c) 1438.
(d) 1549.

4. How many cords of wood did a subcommittee obtain before winter set in?
(a) 300.
(b) 400.
(c) 600.
(d) 500.

5. When did Dr. Rush hire a horse-drawn carriage and begin visiting patients after his bout with yellow fever?
(a) September 19.
(b) September 25.
(c) September 23.
(d) September 21.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Dr. Rush realize that he had yellow fever?

2. How many shops were in Philadelphia in 1793?

3. When was a portrait of Absalom Jones painted by Raphaelle?

4. How old was Dr. Deveze in 1793?

5. What did doctors give Catherine LeMaigre to cool her fever?

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