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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Nine: A Delicate Situation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people who contracted yellow fever usually died from it?
(a) 25 percent.
(b) 75 percent.
(c) 50 percent.
(d) 10 percent.

2. By September 5, how many of Dr. Rush's patients did he claim improved with the Ten-and-Ten treatment?
(a) 3 out of 5.
(b) 29 out of 30.
(c) 8 out of 10.
(d) 15 out of 20.

3. How many cords of wood did a subcommittee obtain before winter set in?
(a) 400.
(b) 500.
(c) 600.
(d) 300.

4. What was the name of a man who lost his entire family, including his wife, to the plague; and then married again?
(a) Matthews.
(b) Collins.
(c) Williams.
(d) Roberts.

5. A few days before being called to care for Catherine LeMaigre, which doctor had lost his daughter to the same fever?
(a) Dr. Rush.
(b) Dr. Wyatt.
(c) Dr. Foulke.
(d) Dr. Hodge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Charles Willson Peale's wife's name?

2. In Chapter 6 in a letter to his wife, how many patients did Dr. Rush say that he was learning had died every morning?

3. How often had the College of Physicians promised to meet during the plague?

4. What Revolutionary War hero wrote begging Dr. Rush for his help during the 1797 yellow fever epidemic?

5. How many French refugees fled a fierce slave rebellion?

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