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

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

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

4. Where did John Bill Ricketts take his circus for the summer?
(a) Rhode Island.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Salem.
(d) Manhattan.

5. What eye condition did Matthew Clarkson have?
(a) Strabismus.
(b) Amblyopia.
(c) Cataracts.
(d) Blepharitis.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many groups in Philadelphia stepped forward and offered to help with the sick and deceased?

2. What was the average yearly income in Philadelphia in 1793?

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

4. Who was the speaker of the Senate in 1793?

5. When was the last time that there was a yellow fever epidemic?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. In her journal, what did Elizabeth Drinker say about the fever on August 28?

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

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

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