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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What day of the week were the recommendations published from the College of Physicians?
(a) Sunday.
(b) Thursday.
(c) Tuesday.
(d) Friday.

2. Where was Dr. Rush's wife that summer of 1793?
(a) Trenton.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Hartford.
(d) Amherst.

3. How many representatives met at the state house on August 27?
(a) 18.
(b) 41.
(c) 36.
(d) 23.

4. When had Dr. Rush seen a similar sickness before?
(a) 1784.
(b) 1762.
(c) 1750.
(d) 1771.

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

6. A few days before being called to care for Catherine LeMaigre, which doctor had lost his daughter to the same fever?
(a) Dr. Foulke.
(b) Dr. Hodge.
(c) Dr. Wyatt.
(d) Dr. Rush.

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

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

9. How often would Catherine LeMaigre vomit?
(a) Every 10 minutes or so.
(b) Every 15 minutes.
(c) About every 30 minutes.
(d) Every couple hours.

10. When did George and Martha Washington leave Philadelphia?
(a) September 10.
(b) August 23.
(c) September 30.
(d) September 21.

11. How old was Benjamin Rush in 1793?
(a) 47.
(b) 61.
(c) 54.
(d) 39.

12. Who wrote a letter asking the Free African Society to nurse the sick and attend to the dead?
(a) Absalom Jones.
(b) Matthew Clarkson.
(c) Richard Allen.
(d) Benjamin Rush.

13. How many people do historians estimate fled from Philadelphia during the fever?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 30,000.
(c) 35,000.
(d) 15,000.

14. Who was the speaker of the Senate in 1793?
(a) John Whitcomb.
(b) Mason Brighting.
(c) Jason Manning.
(d) Samuel Powel.

15. According to Dr. Hodge, where did the first deaths from the fever happen?
(a) On or near Main St.
(b) On or near Water St.
(c) 13th St.
(d) 4th St.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how many blacks in Philadelphia were slaves?

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

3. Where was the militia company stationed that shot off a cannon in Chapter 4?

4. How many of his children did Charles Willson Peale shut inside his museum-residence along with himself and his wife?

5. How many blacks were Jones and Allen in direct contact with who might have helped tend the sick?

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