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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many died on September 8?

2. How many of his children did Charles Willson Peale shut inside his museum-residence along with himself and his wife?

3. Who lent his house to George and Martha Washington?

4. According to Dr. Hodge, where did the first deaths from the fever happen?

5. How many humors did physicians believe there were in the human body?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Benjamin Rush ask the Free African society to help nurse the sick and attend to the dead?

2. Why were the black nurses criticized?

3. What did doctors base their medical thinking upon in the 1700s?

4. Describe Catherine LeMaigre's symptoms.

5. What did Dr. Benjamin Duffield recommend be done to deal with the fever?

6. Describe the sewer system in Philadelphia.

7. Why did the members of the Pennsylvania legislature become fearful two days after they began meeting at the statehouse?

8. What type of power did the mayor of Philadelphia have?

9. Describe Dr. Rush.

10. What business was conducted by the members of the Pennsylvania legislature before they adjourned?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss duty and individuals who were or were not committed to doing their duty during the plague.

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 4, both the state and federal governments contributed to the continuing crisis caused by the plague. Discuss how the state and federal governments contributed to the crisis.

Essay Topic 3

Medical practices were in flux at the end of the eighteenth century. Discuss medical practices at the time of the plague and how these practices were changing.

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