Fever 1793

Fever 1793

Characters

Setting

Plot Vocabulary

Misc.

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Final Jeopardy

Characters 100• Question: • Who was the first to die of the fever? • Answer: • Polly

Characters: 200• Question: True or false? • Eliza is a freed slave.• Answer: • True

Characters: 300• Question: True or False? • Matilda loves helping her mother in the

coffeehouse.• Answer:• False

Characters: 400

• Question: • Who did Matilda meet at the market?• Answer: • Nathaniel Benson

Characters: 500• Question: • Which Oglive daughter got sick of the fever?• Answer: • Collette

Setting: 100• Question: • Where does Matilda’s family work? • Answer: • A coffeehouse

Setting: 200• Question: • Where does Nathaniel Benson work?• Answer: • the Peale’s house

Setting: 300• Question: • What month does the fever start?• Answer: • August

Setting: 400• Question: • Where did Grandfather take Matilda after she

caught the fever?• Answer: • Bush Hill

Setting: 500• Question: • What day did the frost come and end the

fever in Philadelphia? • Answer: • October 23, 1793

Plot: 100• Question: • What illness is going on in Philadelphia?• Answer: • Yellow fever

Plot: 200• Question: • How did Matilda attempt to catch the fish?• Answer: • She used her dress

Plot: 300• Question: • How did the fever end?• Answer: • the frost at the beginning of Winter

Plot: 400• Question:• How did the robbers get into the house?• Answer: • Matilda was hot so she left the window open

Plot: 500• Question: • Was the strongbox stolen?• Answer: • No, the strongbox was not stolen

Vocabulary: 100

• Question: • What is an urn?• Answer: • An old fashioned coffeemaker

Vocabulary: 200

• Question: • What does Grippe mean?• Answer: • Illness

Vocabulary: 300

• Question: • What does jaundiced mean?• Answer: • Effected by prejudice or yellowed in skin

Vocabulary: 400• Question: • What does abhorred mean?• Answer: • hated

Vocabulary: 500• Question: • What does miasma mean?• Answer: • A dangerous influence

Misc. 100• Question: • What weapon hung over the fireplace?• Answer: • A sword

Misc. 200• Question: • What is Matilda’s cat’s name?• Answer: • Silas

Misc. 300• Question: • What was Grandfather’s parrot’s name?• Answer: • King George

Misc. 400• Question: • How many potatoes did Matilda find in the

garden?• Answer: • six

Misc. 500• Question: • How many people died in the actual fever?• Answer: • around 4000 to 5000

Final Jeopardy

• Question: • What did Nell refer to her doll and her

mother’s conditions as • Answer: • Broken