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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. How many bleedings did the Free African Society perform?

2. How many pounds of blood did Dr. Rush and other doctors at that time believe that the human body held?

3. When Rush contracted yellow fever again, how many days did he spend confined to bed unable to lift his head?

4. Who was hired to design and construct Philadelphia's first waterworks?

5. What type of church did Reverend Mr. Helmuth pastor?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What other problems did Philadelphia have other than the plague?

3. What was vis medicatrix naturae?

4. Who was Stephen Girard?

5. Why did Dr. Rush continue seeing patients when he had yellow fever himself?

6. What signs were there that the fever seemed to be gaining in strength and deadliness in Chapter 8?

7. What did Dr. Rush do when the College of Physicians declared that the plague had not been caused by yellow fever?

8. What were sleeping accommodations like in Germantown?

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

10. When Jones and Allen took Carey to task for things he wrote in his book about blacks, what did Carey add to his book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As more and more people died from the fever, Philadelphia was a completely changed place from before the plague struck. Compare and contrast Philadelphia before and after the plague.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the treatments that various doctors used during the plague.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss duty and individuals who were or were not committed to doing their duty during the plague.

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