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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 much did Thomas Jefferson estimate that it cost him to get to Germantown?

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

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

4. Who wrote that Death was riding triumphant on a pale horse at the beginning of Chapter 8?

5. How many died from yellow fever on Saturday, October 12?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did Secretary of War Henry Knox do when President Washington left him in charge of the government in Philadelphia?

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

5. Where did water come from in 1793?

6. What were sleeping accommodations like in Germantown?

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

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

9. Who Was Dolley Payne Todd?

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

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

Philadelphia had many problems during the plague. Discuss the problems that affected the city.

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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