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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 eye condition did Matthew Clarkson have?
(a) Amblyopia.
(b) Strabismus.
(c) Cataracts.
(d) Blepharitis.

2. Whose letter did Dr. Rush find in his old medical books about the yellow plagues that had occurred in Virginia about fifty years earlier?
(a) John Mitchell.
(b) Charles Neece.
(c) Byant Whitcomb.
(d) Davis Miller.

3. By the time Dr. Rush contracted yellow fever, how many doctors had died?
(a) 12.
(b) 7.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

4. What paper did Andrew Brown publish?
(a) Daily News.
(b) Chronicle.
(c) Federal Gazette.
(d) National Gazette.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did George and Martha Washington leave Philadelphia?

2. How old was the servant boy that Dr. Rush trained to open a vein and see the sick?

3. After a sailor died in a boarding house, who was the next person to die?

4. In 1793, what percent of Philadelphia's black worked as live-in domestic workers?

5. In what alley did Helmuth find 40 dead?

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