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

2. How much did the citizens of Manhattan send to aid Philadelphians?
(a) $600.
(b) $5,000.
(c) $500.
(d) $6,000.

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

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

5. How much did some whites charge to put a corpse in a coffin and haul it to a waiting wagon?
(a) $12.
(b) $51.
(c) $6.
(d) $43.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Stephen Girard contract a mild case of yellow fever?

2. What paper did Andrew Brown publish?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did landlords respond during the plague?

2. What did George Washington do on November 10?

3. Who was Stephen Girard?

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

5. What signs were there that the fever seemed to be gaining in strength and deadliness in Chapter 8?

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

7. Where did water come from in 1793?

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

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

10. Who Was Dolley Payne Todd?

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