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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eight: this Unmerciful Enemy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Dr. Rush hire a horse-drawn carriage and begin visiting patients after his bout with yellow fever?
(a) September 23.
(b) September 21.
(c) September 19.
(d) September 25.

2. What was the date at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) September 5.
(b) August 31.
(c) September 12.
(d) August 18.

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

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

5. Besides the mayor, how many members were on the illegal special committee formed to run Philadelphia?
(a) 15.
(b) 26.
(c) 34.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many died from yellow fever on Saturday, October 12?

3. What did A.B., a contributor to "Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser," find in rainwater barrels?

4. Where was the militia company stationed that shot off a cannon in Chapter 4?

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

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