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

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

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

4. About how many free blacks lived in Philadelphia?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 2,300.
(c) 3,000.
(d) 1,700.

5. What did physicians call the tiny reddish sores that erupted on individuals who had the plague?
(a) Odium.
(b) Stigma.
(c) Petechiae.
(d) Purpura.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Isaac Heston when the plague struck Philadelphia?

2. What were the sewers called in Philadelphia?

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

4. Where did federal department heads move their offices?

5. How many Overseers were in charge of managing the city almshouse?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Dr. Benjamin Duffield recommend be done to deal with the fever?

3. Why did the members of the Pennsylvania legislature become fearful two days after they began meeting at the statehouse?

4. Why were the black nurses criticized?

5. What did doctors base their medical thinking upon in the 1700s?

6. What did the governor do about the plague?

7. Why didn't anyone notice when eight people died in two houses during one week at the beginning of August?

8. Why was the Free African Society founded?

9. What did most doctors in Philadelphia believe caused the sickness?

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

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