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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 newspaper was printed occasionally by September?
(a) Federal Gazette.
(b) Philadelphia Chronicle.
(c) Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
(d) National Gazette.

2. Who was the governor of Maryland in 1793?
(a) Bryan Andrews.
(b) John David Smythe.
(c) Thomas Sim Lee.
(d) Matthew Vining.

3. 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?
(a) Silversmith.
(b) Apothecary.
(c) Blacksmith.
(d) Cabinetmaker.

4. During the plague, how many days might it take for a letter to be sent to or from Philadelphia?
(a) 8 days.
(b) 17 days.
(c) 3-6 days.
(d) 10-14 days.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the fever reappear in Philadelphia?

2. For how many years had doctors been using bloodletting or phlebotomy?

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

4. In Chapter 6 in a letter to his wife, how many patients did Dr. Rush say that he was learning had died every morning?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did landlords respond during the plague?

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. Why were conditions so desperate at Bush Hill?

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

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

6. Who Was Dolley Payne Todd?

7. What did Secretary of War Henry Knox do when President Washington left him in charge of the government in Philadelphia?

8. Who was Peter Helm?

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

10. What was vis medicatrix naturae?

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