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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Five: It Was Our Duty.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money did the black leaders attempt to raise in order to build a new church?
(a) $4,000.
(b) $3,500.
(c) $3,000.
(d) $4,500.

2. How many physicians were in Philadelphia in 1793?
(a) 68.
(b) 80.
(c) 25.
(d) 57.

3. How many of his children did Charles Willson Peale shut inside his museum-residence along with himself and his wife?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 7.

4. A few days before being called to care for Catherine LeMaigre, which doctor had lost his daughter to the same fever?
(a) Dr. Rush.
(b) Dr. Foulke.
(c) Dr. Wyatt.
(d) Dr. Hodge.

5. Who wrote a letter asking the Free African Society to nurse the sick and attend to the dead?
(a) Matthew Clarkson.
(b) Benjamin Rush.
(c) Richard Allen.
(d) Absalom Jones.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people who contracted yellow fever usually died from it?

2. What was the largest city in North America in 1793?

3. What was the name of one of the rivers that was drying up near Philadelphia?

4. What eye condition did Matthew Clarkson have?

5. How many people died in two houses on the same street during one week?

(see the answer key)

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