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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Five: It Was Our Duty.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Clarkson ask the physicians from the College of Physicians to come to a meeting about the plague?
(a) August 14.
(b) August 28.
(c) August 19.
(d) August 25.

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

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

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

5. How old was Catherine LeMaigre when she became ill?
(a) 41.
(b) 27.
(c) 33
(d) 22.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Louis XVI die?

2. How many groups in Philadelphia stepped forward and offered to help with the sick and deceased?

3. How many of his children did Charles Willson Peale shut inside his museum-residence along with himself and his wife?

4. How many shops were in Philadelphia in 1793?

5. What type of church did Rev. J. Henry C. Helmuth pastor?

(see the answer key)

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