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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. Where did Jones and Allen discover a house where the mother was dead, the father was dying, and the children were huddled together, frightened and hungry?
(a) Water St.
(b) Main St.
(c) Emsley's Alley.
(d) Beckett's Allley.

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

3. On August 27, how many senators from the Pennsylvania legislature met at the state house?
(a) 15.
(b) 17.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.

4. Where was the militia company stationed that shot off a cannon in Chapter 4?
(a) Fort Mifflin.
(b) Fort Ligonier.
(c) Fort Gaddis.
(d) Fort Allen.

5. What was the name of the second-year medical student who volunteered to help at Bush Hill?
(a) Mason Davidson.
(b) Charles Caldwell.
(c) Edward Franklin.
(d) Isaac Hayes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Louis XVI die?

2. How old was Catherine LeMaigre when she became ill?

3. What did many people sprinkle around their rooms after whitewashing them?

4. How old was Matthew Clarkson when the plague struck Philadelphia?

5. How many French refugees fled a fierce slave rebellion?

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