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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. After Dr. Rush's assistants bled him and administered the purge, how many days did it take for him to get back on his feet?
(a) 4.
(b) 7.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

2. What decorated houses where people were sick from the yellow fever?
(a) A skull and crossbones.
(b) Small blue stars.
(c) Tiny red flags.
(d) A notice from the city.

3. How many weeks did Henry Knox spend in quarantine?
(a) 4 weeks.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 3 weeks.

4. What was the name of a man who lost his entire family, including his wife, to the plague; and then married again?
(a) Williams.
(b) Collins.
(c) Matthews.
(d) Roberts.

5. How much more did the committee spend than it had received in donations?
(a) $1,439.17.
(b) $3,245.12.
(c) $12,194.05.
(d) $5,312.11.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was the servant boy that Dr. Rush trained to open a vein and see the sick?

2. Who had President Washington put in charge when he left Philadelphia?

3. Who wrote that Death was riding triumphant on a pale horse at the beginning of Chapter 8?

4. How old was Israel Israel at the time of the plague?

5. In the 1700s, what was often prescribed to break a slight fever?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who Was Dolley Payne Todd?

2. When Jones and Allen took Carey to task for things he wrote in his book about blacks, what did Carey add to his book?

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

4. What type of treatment did Dr. William Currie recommend?

5. What was bloodletting?

6. What problem did Thomas Sim Lee, governor of Maryland, ask Washington to help him solve?

7. What were sleeping accommodations like in Germantown?

8. How did landlords respond during the plague?

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

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

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