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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. Who wrote that Death was riding triumphant on a pale horse at the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) Martin Whitcomb.
(b) Anderson Ryan.
(c) Elhanan Winchester.
(d) Evan Manning.

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

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

4. What type of church did Reverend Mr. Helmuth pastor?
(a) Episcopal.
(b) Methodist.
(c) Lutheran.
(d) Quaker.

5. What ship was seized by one of Genet's hired privateers?
(a) Roehampton.
(b) Alpha.
(c) Boyne.
(d) Adventure.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Dr. Rush hire a horse-drawn carriage and begin visiting patients after his bout with yellow fever?

2. Where did Thomas Jefferson and George Washington meet as they traveled toward Philadelphia?

3. Besides the mayor, how many members were on the illegal special committee formed to run Philadelphia?

4. How much did the citizens of Manhattan send to aid Philadelphians?

5. What newspaper was printed occasionally by September?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was bloodletting?

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

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

4. Who was Stephen Girard?

5. What were sleeping accommodations like in Germantown?

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

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

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

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

10. What did George Washington do on November 10?

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