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

2. What was the nationality of the sailor who had a fever and seizures before he died on August 3?
(a) British.
(b) American.
(c) African.
(d) French.

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

4. In what boarding house did a sailor die of a fever?
(a) Maggie MacPherson's.
(b) Sarah Smythe's.
(c) Richard Denny's.
(d) William Wright's.

5. To Catherine LeMaigre, what part of her body did she feel as though it was burning up?
(a) Stomach.
(b) Back.
(c) Face.
(d) Head.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did George and Martha Washington leave Philadelphia?

3. How many humors did physicians believe there were in the human body?

4. What doctor wrote about the disgusting aspects of the vomit that spewed from fever victims?

5. Who wrote a letter asking the Free African Society to nurse the sick and attend to the dead?

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