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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. What was the occupation of a man named Mr. Brooks who reopened his shop on October 31 and died of yellow fever on November 3?
(a) Cabinetmaker.
(b) Blacksmith.
(c) Silversmith.
(d) Apothecary.

2. In what alley did Helmuth find 40 dead?
(a) Brush.
(b) Water.
(c) Appletree.
(d) Maple.

3. At the beginning of Chapter 6, about how many persons were ill with the fever?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 6,000.
(c) 8,000.
(d) 7,000.

4. How many weeks did Henry Knox spend in quarantine?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 3 weeks.
(c) 1 week.
(d) 4 weeks.

5. Where was Stephen Girard born?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Germany.
(c) Delaware.
(d) France.

Short Answer Questions

1. On October 17, which committee member wrote in the official minutes that the fever was winning?

2. Which member of the special committee was in charge of providing food for the city?

3. Whose letter did Dr. Rush find in his old medical books about the yellow plagues that had occurred in Virginia about fifty years earlier?

4. What was Dolley Payne Todd's husband's name?

5. How much did the citizens of Manhattan send to aid Philadelphians?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was bloodletting?

2. What did George Washington do on November 10?

3. Who was Stephen Girard?

4. How did landlords respond during the plague?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 8, what were conditions like at Bush Hill?

6. Why did it seem that the entire city had collapsed at the beginning of Chapter 7?

7. What was the Ten-and-Ten treatment?

8. What type of treatment did Dr. Rush prescribe at the beginning of the epidemic?

9. Why were the special committee members taking a risk when they borrowed money to run the city?

10. What problem did Thomas Sim Lee, governor of Maryland, ask Washington to help him solve?

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