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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. When did Clarkson ask the physicians from the College of Physicians to come to a meeting about the plague?
(a) August 25.
(b) August 28.
(c) August 19.
(d) August 14.

2. How many bundles of shirts and dresses for orphans were sent by the Widow Grubb?
(a) 12.
(b) 16.
(c) 18.
(d) 14.

3. When did Dr. Jean Deveze volunteer to work at Bush Hill?
(a) September 1.
(b) August 25.
(c) August 31.
(d) September 16.

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

5. How much did some nurses begin receiving for tending the sick?
(a) $1-2 a day.
(b) $4-5 a day.
(c) $3-4 a day.
(d) $5-6 a day.

Short Answer Questions

1. By September 5, how many of Dr. Rush's patients did he claim improved with the Ten-and-Ten treatment?

2. How many patients did Dr. Rush's five assistants each see in one day after Dr. Rush's recovery?

3. How did Louis XVI die?

4. How old was Dr. Deveze in 1793?

5. A few days before being called to care for Catherine LeMaigre, which doctor had lost his daughter to the same fever?

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