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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eleven: A Modern-Day Time Bomb.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the actual source of the yellow fever virus identified to be tree-dwelling monkey in African and American rain forests?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1943.

2. How old was Catherine LeMaigre when she became ill?
(a) 27.
(b) 22.
(c) 33
(d) 41.

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

4. Where did the sloop Amelia come from?
(a) Bahamas.
(b) Antigua.
(c) Borneo.
(d) Santo Domingo.

5. What did A.B., a contributor to "Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser," find in rainwater barrels?
(a) Dead dogs.
(b) Garbage.
(c) Dead cats.
(d) Mosquitoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did France sell its North American territory to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase.

2. In Chapter 6 in a letter to his wife, how many patients did Dr. Rush say that he was learning had died every morning?

3. How long had medical professionals believed that disease was caused by body humors being out of balance?

4. During the plague, how many days might it take for a letter to be sent to or from Philadelphia?

5. When was it first considered that mosquitoes might cause yellow fever?

(see the answer key)

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