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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) Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
(b) Philadelphia Chronicle.
(c) Federal Gazette.
(d) National Gazette.

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

3. On October 17, which committee member wrote in the official minutes that the fever was winning?
(a) John Bordley.
(b) Caleb Lownes.
(c) Matthew Carey.
(d) David Bryan.

4. At whose farm was Major Christian Piercy put out of a stagecoach?
(a) Eldridge.
(b) Frederick.
(c) Drangers.
(d) Caulkins.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What ship was seized by one of Genet's hired privateers?

2. How often had the College of Physicians promised to meet during the plague?

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

4. Where did Dolley Payne Todd go during the fever outbreak?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What were sleeping accommodations like in Germantown?

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

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

7. What did George Washington do on November 10?

8. Why were conditions so desperate at Bush Hill?

9. What was vis medicatrix naturae?

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

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