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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Matthew Clarkson when the plague struck Philadelphia?
(a) 57.
(b) 48.
(c) 39.
(d) 60.

2. What was the name of the second-year medical student who volunteered to help at Bush Hill?
(a) Mason Davidson.
(b) Isaac Hayes.
(c) Edward Franklin.
(d) Charles Caldwell.

3. How many people died in two houses on the same street during one week?
(a) 4.
(b) 15.
(c) 8.
(d) 2.

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

5. What church in Philadelphia had been built with the help of blacks?
(a) St. George Methodist Church.
(b) St. John Episcopal Church.
(c) St. Peter Episcopal Church.
(d) St. Thomas Episcopal Church.

6. Who was the governor of Pennsylvania in 1793?
(a) Mifflin.
(b) McKean.
(c) Snyder.
(d) Findlay.

7. What was the name of the newspaper that was printed at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) The Federal Gazette.
(b) Daily News.
(c) Inquirer.
(d) City Paper.

8. How many children did Clarkson have?
(a) 9.
(b) 5.
(c) 8.
(d) 7.

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

10. What was the name of the doctor who had studied yellow fever, but never seen it?
(a) Dr. Benjamin Duffield.
(b) Dr. William Currie.
(c) Dr. Samuel Griffitts.
(d) Dr. Benjamin Rush.

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

12. How many groups in Philadelphia stepped forward and offered to help with the sick and deceased?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

13. How many blacks were Jones and Allen in direct contact with who might have helped tend the sick?
(a) 150.
(b) 350.
(c) 300.
(d) 250.

14. What did doctors give Catherine LeMaigre to cool her fever?
(a) Mercury and the root of a poisonous plant.
(b) Cold cloths.
(c) Ice chips.
(d) Barley water and apple water.

15. On August 27, how many senators from the Pennsylvania legislature met at the state house?
(a) 15.
(b) 17.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the owner of Bush Hill?

2. How many times a day did Charles Willson Peale fire a musket inside his house?

3. Where did Jones and Allen discover a house where the mother was dead, the father was dying, and the children were huddled together, frightened and hungry?

4. How many people who contracted yellow fever usually died from it?

5. What was the largest city in North America in 1793?

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