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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

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 25.
(b) August 28.
(c) August 14.
(d) August 19.

2. Where was the city almshouse located?
(a) Ashton St.
(b) Main St.
(c) Water St.
(d) Spruce St.

3. 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?
(a) Beckett's Allley.
(b) Water St.
(c) Emsley's Alley.
(d) Main St.

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

5. What was the largest city in North America in 1793?
(a) Charlestown.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) New York.
(d) Trenton.

6. How much money did the black leaders attempt to raise in order to build a new church?
(a) $3,000.
(b) $4,500.
(c) $3,500.
(d) $4,000.

7. What illness was seen in January of 1793?
(a) Mumps.
(b) Measles.
(c) Influenza.
(d) Scarlet fever.

8. When was the Free African Society founded?
(a) 1764.
(b) 1759.
(c) 1787.
(d) 1772.

9. How many families did Jones and Allen visit in one day?
(a) 10.
(b) 20.
(c) 5.
(d) 15.

10. In what part of the state house building were the rooms of Joseph Fry, the doorkeeper who died from the fever?
(a) North.
(b) West.
(c) East.
(d) South.

11. What church in Philadelphia had been built with the help of blacks?
(a) St. Thomas Episcopal Church.
(b) St. Peter Episcopal Church.
(c) St. John Episcopal Church.
(d) St. George Methodist Church.

12. What was the name of Clarkson's son who died during the plague?
(a) William.
(b) James.
(c) Gerard.
(d) Peter.

13. How much did some nurses begin receiving for tending the sick?
(a) $1-2 a day.
(b) $5-6 a day.
(c) $4-5 a day.
(d) $3-4 a day.

14. How many groups in Philadelphia stepped forward and offered to help with the sick and deceased?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

15. When did a savage storm hit the city bringing winds and torrents of rain?
(a) August 25.
(b) August 21.
(c) August 29.
(d) August 30.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the doctor who had studied yellow fever, but never seen it?

2. To Catherine LeMaigre, what part of her body did she feel as though it was burning up?

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

4. What were the sewers called in Philadelphia?

5. In 1793, what percent of Philadelphia's black worked as live-in domestic workers?

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