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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How many Guardians were in charge of caring for the poor who did not live in the city almshouse?
(a) 17.
(b) 21.
(c) 34.
(d) 14.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many died on September 8?

2. What day of the week did Catherine LeMaigre die?

3. Who lent his house to George and Martha Washington?

4. What was the name of the second-year medical student who volunteered to help at Bush Hill?

5. How often would Catherine LeMaigre vomit?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Matthew Clarkson's upbringing and career.

2. Why did blacks stop worshiping at St. George Methodist Church?

3. What was the problem with the French that troubled President Washington?

4. What did A.B. recommend be done to curb the fever in Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser?

5. Why was a constitutional crisis set in motion when Washington left Philadelphia?

6. What type of power did the mayor of Philadelphia have?

7. Why did Benjamin Rush ask the Free African society to help nurse the sick and attend to the dead?

8. What types of services did the Free African Society perform for the sick?

9. Who decided that a cannon should be fired in the streets of Philadelphia at the end of August?

10. Why was Mayor Clarkson concerned about the rising number of penniless people in Philadelphia?

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