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

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

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

4. When was a portrait of Absalom Jones painted by Raphaelle?
(a) 1810.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1787.
(d) 1794.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many rooms were there in Bush Hill?

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

3. A few days before being called to care for Catherine LeMaigre, which doctor had lost his daughter to the same fever?

4. Who lent his house to George and Martha Washington?

5. In what boarding house did a sailor die of a fever?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Matthew Clarkson's upbringing and career.

2. What was the problem with the French that troubled President Washington?

3. What did the governor do about the plague?

4. Why did Benjamin Rush ask the Free African society to help nurse the sick and attend to the dead?

5. What were the main reasons why people stayed in the city during the plague?

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

7. Why were the black nurses criticized?

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

9. What did the volunteers from the Free African Society often find when they entered the homes of fever victims?

10. Describe Catherine LeMaigre's symptoms.

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