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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 state refused to allow a ship from Philadelphia to land and take on water?
(a) Delaware.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) New York.
(d) New Jersey.

2. By the first of September, how many people were jammed into Bush Hill?
(a) Over 100.
(b) About 75.
(c) Nearly 150.
(d) Around 50.

3. When Israel Israel finally won an election of Pennsylvania state legislature, by how many votes did he win?
(a) 59.
(b) 38.
(c) 412.
(d) 328.

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

5. How many patients did Dr. Rush's five assistants each see in one day after Dr. Rush's recovery?
(a) 25.
(b) 35.
(c) 30.
(d) 40.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Black Plague strike in England?

2. What Revolutionary War hero wrote begging Dr. Rush for his help during the 1797 yellow fever epidemic?

3. How much did some whites charge to put a corpse in a coffin and haul it to a waiting wagon?

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

5. In what alley did Helmuth find 40 dead?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why were conditions so desperate at Bush Hill?

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

5. What were sleeping accommodations like in Germantown?

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

7. What was bloodletting?

8. Where did water come from in 1793?

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

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

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