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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 did Louis XVI die?
(a) Shot by a firing squad.
(b) In a dungeon with no food or water.
(c) Hung.
(d) Beheaded.

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

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

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

5. What was the name of the doctor who had studied yellow fever, but never seen it?
(a) Dr. Benjamin Rush.
(b) Dr. Samuel Griffitts.
(c) Dr. William Currie.
(d) Dr. Benjamin Duffield.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the governor of Pennsylvania in 1793?

2. 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?

3. How many representatives met at the state house on August 27?

4. What day of the week were the recommendations published from the College of Physicians?

5. According to Dr. Hodge, where did the first deaths from the fever happen?

(see the answer key)

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