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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. Which member of the special committee was in charge of providing food for the city?

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

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

4. How many cords of wood did a subcommittee obtain before winter set in?

5. On October 17, which committee member wrote in the official minutes that the fever was winning?

Short Essay Questions

1. What other problems did Philadelphia have other than the plague?

2. How did Dr. Jean Deveze treat fever patients?

3. What was bloodletting?

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

5. Where did water come from in 1793?

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

7. What was the Ten-and-Ten treatment?

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

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

10. How did landlords respond during the plague?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Dr. Rush looked around the city and realized that Philadelphia itself might succumb at any moment. Discuss the factors that threatened the survival of the city.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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