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

2. How many died on September 8?
(a) 64.
(b) 38.
(c) 42.
(d) 51.

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

4. How old was Benjamin Rush in 1793?
(a) 61.
(b) 39.
(c) 54.
(d) 47.

5. When did Stephen Girard contract a mild case of yellow fever?
(a) July.
(b) August.
(c) October.
(d) September.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the date at the beginning of Chapter 1?

2. For how many years had doctors been using bloodletting or phlebotomy?

3. How long had medical professionals believed that disease was caused by body humors being out of balance?

4. In what alley did Helmuth find 40 dead?

5. When did the Black Plague strike in England?

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