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

2. How did Louis XVI die?
(a) Shot by a firing squad.
(b) In a dungeon with no food or water.
(c) Hung.
(d) Beheaded.

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

4. What day of the week did Catherine LeMaigre die?
(a) Monday.
(b) Thursday.
(c) Wednesday.
(d) Tuesday.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote a letter asking the Free African Society to nurse the sick and attend to the dead?

2. Who was the governor of Pennsylvania in 1793?

3. How many humors did physicians believe there were in the human body?

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

5. How old was Benjamin Rush in 1793?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Dr. Benjamin Duffield recommend be done to deal with the fever?

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

3. Describe Dr. Rush.

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

5. What type of power did the mayor of Philadelphia have?

6. Why didn't anyone notice when eight people died in two houses during one week at the beginning of August?

7. Why was the Free African Society founded?

8. Why were there an amazing number of flies and other insects in August 1793?

9. Why did the members of the Pennsylvania legislature become fearful two days after they began meeting at the statehouse?

10. Describe Catherine LeMaigre's symptoms.

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