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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. Where was a Philadelphia woman and her black servant tarred and feathered?

2. When did George Washington make a personal inspection of Philadelphia?

3. By the first of September, how many people were jammed into Bush Hill?

4. How many died from the plague on October 7?

5. What ship was seized by one of Genet's hired privateers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was bloodletting?

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

3. Why were conditions so desperate at Bush Hill?

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

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. How did landlords respond during the plague?

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

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

9. Why did Dr. Rush continue seeing patients when he had yellow fever himself?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the treatments that various doctors used during the plague.

Essay Topic 2

The black nurses who cared for the sick were accused of price gouging. Discuss price gouging and how Mayor Clarkson dealt with the matter.

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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