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

2. How many times did it rain in September, 1793?

3. When did Dr. Rush realize that he had yellow fever?

4. What paper did Andrew Brown publish?

5. What was the name of a man who lost his entire family, including his wife, to the plague; and then married again?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why were conditions so desperate at Bush Hill?

4. What was bloodletting?

5. What did Rev. Helmuth write about visits he made at night to visit the sick?

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

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

8. Who was Peter Helm?

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

10. What did George Washington do on November 10?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As more and more people died from the fever, Philadelphia was a completely changed place from before the plague struck. Compare and contrast Philadelphia before and after the plague.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Dr. Benjamin Rush to other doctors at the time.

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