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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 groups in Philadelphia stepped forward and offered to help with the sick and deceased?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

2. What was the name of the doctor who had studied yellow fever, but never seen it?
(a) Dr. William Currie.
(b) Dr. Benjamin Rush.
(c) Dr. Samuel Griffitts.
(d) Dr. Benjamin Duffield.

3. What did physicians call the tiny reddish sores that erupted on individuals who had the plague?
(a) Stigma.
(b) Purpura.
(c) Odium.
(d) Petechiae.

4. Where did federal department heads move their offices?
(a) Hamburg.
(b) Mercersburg.
(c) Germantown.
(d) Milbourne.

5. How old was Dr. Deveze in 1793?
(a) 39.
(b) 34.
(c) 48.
(d) 41.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the newspaper that was printed at the beginning of Chapter 3?

2. What was the name of one of the rivers that was drying up near Philadelphia?

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

4. How old was Matthew Clarkson when the plague struck Philadelphia?

5. When was a portrait of Absalom Jones painted by Raphaelle?

(see the answer key)

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