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

2. What decorated houses where people were sick from the yellow fever?

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

4. What paper did Andrew Brown publish?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did landlords respond during the plague?

2. What did George Washington do on November 10?

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

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

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. Why were conditions so desperate at Bush Hill?

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

8. What was bloodletting?

9. At the beginning of Chapter 8, what were conditions like at Bush Hill?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Yellow fever is compared to a time bomb. Discuss why yellow fever is a "modern-day time bomb."

Essay Topic 2

Discuss yellow fever and the signs that it was in Philadelphia.

Essay Topic 3

In 1793, President Washington was concerned about the French Revolution. Discuss the French Revolution and why it troubled Washington.

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