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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. How old was the servant boy that Dr. Rush trained to open a vein and see the sick?
(a) 14.
(b) 13.
(c) 12.
(d) 11.

2. For how many years had doctors been using bloodletting or phlebotomy?
(a) Nearly 3,500.
(b) About 1,000.
(c) More than 2,500.
(d) Over 3,000.

3. In what alley did Helmuth find 40 dead?
(a) Water.
(b) Brush.
(c) Appletree.
(d) Maple.

4. How many died from yellow fever on Saturday, October 12?
(a) 89.
(b) 62.
(c) 111.
(d) 124.

5. How many bleedings did the Free African Society perform?
(a) 600.
(b) Over 800.
(c) 750.
(d) About 500.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the occupation of a man named Mr. Brooks who reopened his shop on October 31 and died of yellow fever on November 3?

2. When was someone hired to design and construct Philadelphia's first waterworks?

3. How many weeks did Henry Knox spend in quarantine?

4. How many pounds of blood did Dr. Rush and other doctors at that time believe that the human body held?

5. What was the name of William Cobbett's paper?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were the special committee members taking a risk when they borrowed money to run the city?

2. What did Rev. Helmuth write about visits he made at night to visit the sick?

3. What type of news did Philip Freneau print during the plague?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 8, what were conditions like at Bush Hill?

5. Why did Dr. Rush continue seeing patients when he had yellow fever himself?

6. What type of treatment did Dr. Rush prescribe at the beginning of the epidemic?

7. What was bloodletting?

8. What did Dr. Rush do when the College of Physicians declared that the plague had not been caused by yellow fever?

9. How did Dr. Jean Deveze treat fever patients?

10. What was the Ten-and-Ten treatment?

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