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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 did President Washington leave Mount Vernon and head north?
(a) October 17.
(b) November 4.
(c) November 12.
(d) October 28.

2. How long had medical professionals believed that disease was caused by body humors being out of balance?
(a) 500 years.
(b) 3,000 years.
(c) 700 years.
(d) 2,500 years.

3. What illness was seen in January of 1793?
(a) Scarlet fever.
(b) Mumps.
(c) Influenza.
(d) Measles.

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

5. What were the sewers called in Philadelphia?
(a) Canals.
(b) Cesspools.
(c) Trenches.
(d) Sinks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state refused to allow a ship from Philadelphia to land and take on water?

2. In what part of the state house building were the rooms of Joseph Fry, the doorkeeper who died from the fever?

3. When did Dr. Rush realize that he had yellow fever?

4. What cargo did the sloop Amelia bring to Philadelphia?

5. Where was Dr. Carlos Finlay from?

(see the answer key)

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