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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Three: Church Bells Tolling.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many physicians from the College of Physicians showed up when Matthew Clarkson called a meeting?
(a) 34.
(b) 25.
(c) 48.
(d) 16.

2. How long had medical professionals believed that disease was caused by body humors being out of balance?
(a) 2,500 years.
(b) 500 years.
(c) 3,000 years.
(d) 700 years.

3. What was the nationality of the sailor who had a fever and seizures before he died on August 3?
(a) American.
(b) African.
(c) British.
(d) French.

4. Where was Dr. Rush's wife that summer of 1793?
(a) Trenton.
(b) Hartford.
(c) Amherst.
(d) Princeton.

5. How did Louis XVI die?
(a) Shot by a firing squad.
(b) Beheaded.
(c) In a dungeon with no food or water.
(d) Hung.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What cargo did the sloop Amelia bring to Philadelphia?

3. According to Dr. Hodge, where did the first deaths from the fever happen?

4. What was Catherine LeMaigre's husband's name?

5. How many people who contracted yellow fever usually died from it?

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