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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. Where was the militia company stationed that shot off a cannon in Chapter 4?
(a) Fort Gaddis.
(b) Fort Mifflin.
(c) Fort Ligonier.
(d) Fort Allen.

2. Who was the governor of Pennsylvania in 1793?
(a) Findlay.
(b) Mifflin.
(c) McKean.
(d) Snyder.

3. Where was the mansion located that was commandeered for a place to care for seriously ill patients?
(a) At eastern edge of the city.
(b) At the western edge of the city.
(c) 2 ½ miles northwest of the city.
(d) 3 miles south of the city.

4. For how many days did Peter Helm and Stephen Girard attend to Bush HIll?
(a) 60 days.
(b) 50 days.
(c) 70 days.
(d) 40 days.

5. What Revolutionary War hero wrote begging Dr. Rush for his help during the 1797 yellow fever epidemic?
(a) Thaddeus Kosciusko.
(b) Adam Monroe.
(c) Haym Solomon.
(d) Crispus Attucks.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many blacks were Jones and Allen in direct contact with who might have helped tend the sick?

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

3. How many times a day did Charles Willson Peale fire a musket inside his house?

4. When did Stephen Girard contract a mild case of yellow fever?

5. How much did the citizens of Manhattan send to aid Philadelphians?

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