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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 many pounds of blood did Dr. Rush and other doctors at that time believe that the human body held?
(a) 5.
(b) 25.
(c) 10.
(d) 15.

2. How long was Dr. Currie's book about Philadelphia's plague?
(a) 64 pages.
(b) 89 pages.
(c) 25 pages.
(d) 112 pages.

3. How old was Stephen Girard in 1793?
(a) 64.
(b) 56.
(c) 43.
(d) 36.

4. In the 1700s, what was often prescribed to break a slight fever?
(a) Herb tea.
(b) Milk.
(c) Brandy.
(d) Lemonade.

5. Where did Dolley Payne Todd go during the fever outbreak?
(a) Gray's Ferry.
(b) Camden.
(c) Germantown.
(d) Providence.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times a day would Dr. Rush administer the Ten-and-Ten or Ten-and-Fifteen Treatment?

2. When Rush contracted yellow fever again, how many days did he spend confined to bed unable to lift his head?

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

4. What was the name of Dr. Rush's sister who died during the plague?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What other problems did Philadelphia have other than the plague?

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

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

4. What was bloodletting?

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

6. Who Was Dolley Payne Todd?

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

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

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

10. Why did it seem that the entire city had collapsed at the beginning of Chapter 7?

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