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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the largest city in North America in 1793?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Charlestown.
(c) New York.
(d) Trenton.

2. In what part of the state house building were the rooms of Joseph Fry, the doorkeeper who died from the fever?
(a) South.
(b) East.
(c) North.
(d) West.

3. When did Clarkson ask the physicians from the College of Physicians to come to a meeting about the plague?
(a) August 25.
(b) August 14.
(c) August 19.
(d) August 28.

4. What was Charles Willson Peale's wife's name?
(a) Patience.
(b) Betsy.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Martha.

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

6. How many of his children did Charles Willson Peale shut inside his museum-residence along with himself and his wife?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

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

8. When did a savage storm hit the city bringing winds and torrents of rain?
(a) August 30.
(b) August 25.
(c) August 21.
(d) August 29.

9. How long did George Washington plan to be gone from Philadelphia when he left the city?
(a) 15 days.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 20 days.
(d) 1 month.

10. When was the last time that there was a yellow fever epidemic?
(a) 1684,
(b) 1784.
(c) 1719.
(d) 1762.

11. What was the date at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) September 12.
(b) August 31.
(c) September 5.
(d) August 18.

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

13. Who lent his house to George and Martha Washington?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Matthew Clarkson
(c) Benjamin Rush.
(d) Robert Morris.

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

15. Who was the owner of Bush Hill?
(a) William Hamilton.
(b) Robert Ashworth.
(c) George Smythe.
(d) David Browning.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many shops were in Philadelphia in 1793?

2. What was the nationality of the sailor who had a fever and seizures before he died on August 3?

3. What was the date at the beginning of Chapter 1?

4. How did Louis XVI die?

5. What day of the week did Catherine LeMaigre die?

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