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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Four: Confusion, Distress, and Utter Desolation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many times a day did Charles Willson Peale fire a musket inside his house?
(a) 5.
(b) 7.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

2. How many children did Clarkson have?
(a) 7.
(b) 9.
(c) 8.
(d) 5.

3. How old was Matthew Clarkson when the plague struck Philadelphia?
(a) 39.
(b) 57.
(c) 60.
(d) 48.

4. In what boarding house did a sailor die of a fever?
(a) Richard Denny's.
(b) Sarah Smythe's.
(c) Maggie MacPherson's.
(d) William Wright's.

5. After a sailor died in a boarding house, who was the next person to die?
(a) Mr. Denny.
(b) Mrs. Richard Parkinson.
(c) Mr. Moore.
(d) Mr. Peter Aston.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the nationality of the sailor who had a fever and seizures before he died on August 3?

2. When did Matthew Clarkson become mayor of Philadelphia?

3. Where was Dr. Rush's wife that summer of 1793?

4. What was the name of one of the rivers that was drying up near Philadelphia?

5. In what part of the state house building were the rooms of Joseph Fry, the doorkeeper who died from the fever?

(see the answer key)

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