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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Three: Church Bells Tolling.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Clarkson ask the physicians from the College of Physicians to come to a meeting about the plague?
(a) August 28.
(b) August 14.
(c) August 19.
(d) August 25.

2. When had Dr. Rush seen a similar sickness before?
(a) 1771.
(b) 1784.
(c) 1750.
(d) 1762.

3. How many people died in two houses on the same street during one week?
(a) 2.
(b) 15.
(c) 8.
(d) 4.

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

5. How many French refugees fled a fierce slave rebellion?
(a) 712.
(b) 579.
(c) 1,200.
(d) 2,100.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many shops were in Philadelphia in 1793?

2. What were the sewers called in Philadelphia?

3. After a sailor died in a boarding house, who was the next person to die?

4. What was Charles Willson Peale's wife's name?

5. What was the nationality of the sailor who had a fever and seizures before he died on August 3?

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