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

2. How many people lived in Philadelphia in 1793?
(a) 72,000.
(b) 33,000.
(c) 48,000.
(d) 51,000.

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

4. 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?
(a) Water St.
(b) Main St.
(c) Beckett's Allley.
(d) Emsley's Alley.

5. How old was Benjamin Rush in 1793?
(a) 47.
(b) 39.
(c) 61.
(d) 54.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the owner of Bush Hill?

2. What did doctors give Catherine LeMaigre to cool her fever?

3. How many Guardians were in charge of caring for the poor who did not live in the city almshouse?

4. How much money did the black leaders attempt to raise in order to build a new church?

5. What church in Philadelphia had been built with the help of blacks?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did doctors base their medical thinking upon in the 1700s?

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

4. What did the governor do about the plague?

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

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

7. What type of medical training did Dr. Benjamin Rush have?

8. Why were the black nurses criticized?

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

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

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