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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did doctors give Catherine LeMaigre to cool her fever?

2. How many families did Jones and Allen visit in one day?

3. Where was the mansion located that was commandeered for a place to care for seriously ill patients?

4. How much money did the black leaders attempt to raise in order to build a new church?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who were the first two doctors called to see Catherine LeMaigre?

5. What type of medical training did Dr. Benjamin Rush have?

6. In her journal, what did Elizabeth Drinker say about the fever on August 28?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Medical practices were in flux at the end of the eighteenth century. Discuss medical practices at the time of the plague and how these practices were changing.

Essay Topic 2

Yellow fever is compared to a time bomb. Discuss why yellow fever is a "modern-day time bomb."

Essay Topic 3

The black nurses who cared for the sick were accused of price gouging. Discuss price gouging and how Mayor Clarkson dealt with the matter.

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