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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About how many free blacks lived in Philadelphia?
(a) 3,000.
(b) 1,700.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 2,300.

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

3. How old was Isaac Heston when the plague struck Philadelphia?
(a) 21.
(b) 31.
(c) 17.
(d) 44.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many watchmen were supposed to watch the streets of Philadelphia at night?

2. When had Dr. Rush seen a similar sickness before?

3. After a sailor died in a boarding house, who was the next person to die?

4. What was Catherine LeMaigre's husband's name?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was a constitutional crisis set in motion when Washington left Philadelphia?

2. What types of services did the Free African Society perform for the sick?

3. What did most doctors in Philadelphia believe caused the sickness?

4. Who decided that a cannon should be fired in the streets of Philadelphia at the end of August?

5. Why did blacks stop worshiping at St. George Methodist Church?

6. Why did Rev. J. Henry C. Helmuth believe that Philadelphia would feel God's displeasure?

7. Why was Mayor Clarkson concerned about the rising number of penniless people in Philadelphia?

8. Why were the black nurses criticized?

9. Who were the first two doctors called to see Catherine LeMaigre?

10. Why was the Free African Society founded?

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