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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Seven: By Twelve Only.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many Overseers were in charge of managing the city almshouse?
(a) 5.
(b) 7.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

2. How much money was donated to refugees from Santo Domingo?
(a) $5,000.
(b) $10,000.
(c) $15,000.
(d) $20,000.

3. How old was Dr. Deveze in 1793?
(a) 48.
(b) 34.
(c) 39.
(d) 41.

4. Besides the mayor, how many members were on the illegal special committee formed to run Philadelphia?
(a) 12.
(b) 34.
(c) 26.
(d) 15.

5. Who wrote a letter asking the Free African Society to nurse the sick and attend to the dead?
(a) Richard Allen.
(b) Benjamin Rush.
(c) Absalom Jones.
(d) Matthew Clarkson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Jones and Allen discover a house where the mother was dead, the father was dying, and the children were huddled together, frightened and hungry?

2. How much did some nurses begin receiving for tending the sick?

3. How many times a day did Charles Willson Peale fire a musket inside his house?

4. What was the name of the newspaper that was printed at the beginning of Chapter 3?

5. When had Dr. Rush seen a similar sickness before?

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