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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Four: Confusion, Distress, and Utter Desolation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what part of the state house building were the rooms of Joseph Fry, the doorkeeper who died from the fever?
(a) South.
(b) West.
(c) North.
(d) East.

2. What was the name of one of the rivers that was drying up near Philadelphia?
(a) Lehigh.
(b) Delaware.
(c) Susquehanna.
(d) Allegheny.

3. What did many people sprinkle around their rooms after whitewashing them?
(a) Baking soda.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Ashes.
(d) Vinegar.

4. What illness was seen in January of 1793?
(a) Scarlet fever.
(b) Influenza.
(c) Measles.
(d) Mumps.

5. When did Matthew Clarkson become mayor of Philadelphia?
(a) 1791.
(b) 1790.
(c) 1792.
(d) 1789.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did the sloop Amelia come from?

3. To Catherine LeMaigre, what part of her body did she feel as though it was burning up?

4. How many physicians were in Philadelphia in 1793?

5. Where did federal department heads move their offices?

(see the answer key)

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