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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year was a French watercolor done to show a yellow fever victim in the early stages of the illness?
(a) 1751.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1819.
(d) 1796.

2. Who was the governor of Pennsylvania in 1793?
(a) Findlay.
(b) Snyder.
(c) Mifflin.
(d) McKean.

3. What did doctors give Catherine LeMaigre to cool her fever?
(a) Ice chips.
(b) Mercury and the root of a poisonous plant.
(c) Cold cloths.
(d) Barley water and apple water.

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

5. How many shops were in Philadelphia in 1793?
(a) 229.
(b) 312.
(c) 415.
(d) 184.

6. What was the name of one of the rivers that was drying up near Philadelphia?
(a) Delaware.
(b) Susquehanna.
(c) Lehigh.
(d) Allegheny.

7. Who lent his house to George and Martha Washington?
(a) Benjamin Rush.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Robert Morris.
(d) Matthew Clarkson

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

9. When did George and Martha Washington leave Philadelphia?
(a) September 10.
(b) August 23.
(c) September 21.
(d) September 30.

10. What type of church did Rev. J. Henry C. Helmuth pastor?
(a) Presbyterian.
(b) Lutheran.
(c) Congregational.
(d) Episcopal.

11. When was the last time that there was a yellow fever epidemic?
(a) 1719.
(b) 1762.
(c) 1684,
(d) 1784.

12. What day of the week were the recommendations published from the College of Physicians?
(a) Tuesday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Thursday.
(d) Friday.

13. Who was the speaker of the Senate in 1793?
(a) Jason Manning.
(b) Samuel Powel.
(c) Mason Brighting.
(d) John Whitcomb.

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

15. How much money was donated to refugees from Santo Domingo?
(a) $20,000.
(b) $15,000.
(c) $10,000.
(d) $5,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. After a sailor died in a boarding house, who was the next person to die?

2. What church in Philadelphia had been built with the help of blacks?

3. How many watchmen were supposed to watch the streets of Philadelphia at night?

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

5. About how many free blacks lived in Philadelphia?

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