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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. What was the name of Clarkson's son who died during the plague?
(a) Gerard.
(b) James.
(c) William.
(d) Peter.

2. How long had medical professionals believed that disease was caused by body humors being out of balance?
(a) 700 years.
(b) 500 years.
(c) 3,000 years.
(d) 2,500 years.

3. What was Charles Willson Peale's wife's name?
(a) Betsy.
(b) Elizabeth.
(c) Patience.
(d) Martha.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In which direction were the swamps near Philadelphia that had lost water due to the intense heat?

2. When did Clarkson ask the physicians from the College of Physicians to come to a meeting about the plague?

3. What year was a French watercolor done to show a yellow fever victim in the early stages of the illness?

4. When was the Free African Society founded?

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

(see the answer key)

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