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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. When did Matthew Clarkson become mayor of Philadelphia?
(a) 1791.
(b) 1792.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1790.

2. In what boarding house did a sailor die of a fever?
(a) Sarah Smythe's.
(b) Richard Denny's.
(c) William Wright's.
(d) Maggie MacPherson's.

3. Where did the sloop Amelia come from?
(a) Antigua.
(b) Santo Domingo.
(c) Borneo.
(d) Bahamas.

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

5. What was the average yearly income in Philadelphia in 1793?
(a) $400.
(b) $100.
(c) $200.
(d) $300.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How much money was donated to refugees from Santo Domingo?

5. When was the Free African Society founded?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did A.B. recommend be done to curb the fever in Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser?

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

3. Why was there a stench originating from Ball's Wharf?

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

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

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

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

8. What did the governor do about the plague?

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

10. Why was the Free African Society founded?

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