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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. Of what type of church was Reverend John Schmidt a pastor?
(a) Lutheran.
(b) Methodist.
(c) Episcopal.
(d) Presbyterian.

2. How many people who contracted yellow fever usually died from it?
(a) 25 percent.
(b) 50 percent.
(c) 10 percent.
(d) 75 percent.

3. Where did John Bill Ricketts take his circus for the summer?
(a) Rhode Island.
(b) Manhattan.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Salem.

4. What was the name of a memorable poem written by Philip Freneau?
(a) Pestilence.
(b) Fever.
(c) Contagion.
(d) Plague.

5. How many physicians were in Philadelphia in 1793?
(a) 57.
(b) 25.
(c) 80.
(d) 68.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many died on September 8?

2. What did A.B., a contributor to "Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser," find in rainwater barrels?

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

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

5. What Revolutionary War hero wrote begging Dr. Rush for his help during the 1797 yellow fever epidemic?

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