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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. What cargo did the sloop Amelia bring to Philadelphia?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Bananas.
(c) Lamb.
(d) Beef.

2. What did doctors give Catherine LeMaigre to cool her fever?
(a) Cold cloths.
(b) Barley water and apple water.
(c) Mercury and the root of a poisonous plant.
(d) Ice chips.

3. What was the name of one of the rivers that was drying up near Philadelphia?
(a) Lehigh.
(b) Delaware.
(c) Susquehanna.
(d) Allegheny.

4. How many French refugees fled a fierce slave rebellion?
(a) 712.
(b) 2,100.
(c) 1,200.
(d) 579.

5. How much did the citizens of Manhattan send to aid Philadelphians?
(a) $600.
(b) $6,000.
(c) $500.
(d) $5,000.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. On October 17, which committee member wrote in the official minutes that the fever was winning?

4. How much money did the black leaders attempt to raise in order to build a new church?

5. When did Dr. Rush hire a horse-drawn carriage and begin visiting patients after his bout with yellow fever?

(see the answer key)

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