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

2. How many watchmen were supposed to watch the streets of Philadelphia at night?
(a) 37.
(b) 16.
(c) 23.
(d) 41.

3. How old was Benjamin Rush in 1793?
(a) 47.
(b) 54.
(c) 39.
(d) 61.

4. How many people who contracted yellow fever usually died from it?
(a) 50 percent.
(b) 10 percent.
(c) 25 percent.
(d) 75 percent.

5. How many French refugees fled a fierce slave rebellion?
(a) 1,200.
(b) 2,100.
(c) 579.
(d) 712.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what boarding house did a sailor die of a fever?

3. Who was the speaker of the Senate in 1793?

4. How many died on September 8?

5. What did doctors give Catherine LeMaigre to cool her fever?

(see the answer key)

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