Plague vs Pandemic

Plague vs Pandemic

Social Studies/Alternate History

I can...

• I can identify the economic, political, and social effects of the plague (pandemic). A.7.8.5​

Multiple Choice

How long did the plague last?

• 20 years

• 350 years

• 35 years

• 100 years

Multiple Choice

How did the plague spread?

• Bats

• Poisonous air

• rats

• Bad water

Multiple Choice

What were on the rats?

• Ticks

• regular fleas

• fleas that had bacteria

• rats

Open Ended

What were communities with tight living areas affected the most?

Open Ended

What would they do to houses that had the plague?

Open Ended

What were 3 ways that they tried to avoid the plague??

Multiple Choice

How long did the Great Fire Last?

• All night-it had ended by the morning.

• Four days.

• A week.

• A month.

Multiple Choice

How did it start?

• Someone let off a firework

• There was an attack.

• Someone in a bakery forgot to put a fire out in their oven

• It remains a mystery to this day

QUIZ ABOUT THE PLAGUE!!

Multiple Choice

What did most people believe the Black Death was caused by?

• dogs and cats

• biological war affairs

• God's punishment

• food mites

Multiple Select

The plague was spread by which of the following?

• rats/ animals

• humans

• fleas

• rain water

Multiple Choice

How did the Plague arrive in Italy?

• on trade ships

• on the Silk Road

• on the trans-Saharan trade route

• on camels

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best explains why the Black Death spread so quickly throughout Europe?

• doctors ran out of vaccinations for the plague

• doctors ran out of antibiotics for the plague

• doctors had little knowledge of how to cure the disease

• doctors were too sick themselves to help others suffering

Multiple Choice

What job did this person have?

• Farmer

• Bishop

• Pope

• Doctor

Multiple Choice

Why is it called the black plague?

• Only white animals die from it

• Only black cats die from it

• Peoples blood goes black from internal bleeding

• Your head turns black as an effect

Multiple Choice

 _{^{This famous children's nursery rhyme was about the Black Death. CREEPY!}}

• London Bridge 

• Red Rover Red Rover

• Rain Rain Go Away

• Ring Around The Rosie 

Multiple Choice

How much of Europe's population was killed by the Black Death? 

• 1/4

• 1/2

• 1/3

• 1/5

Multiple Choice

^{Where did the Black Death technically start?}

• Asia

• Northern Europe 

• Australia 

• Northern Africa

Multiple Choice

How did the Bubonic Plague spread?

• Bad water

• Fleas on rats

• Looking at people

• Alignment of the stars

Multiple Choice

Which one of these is NOT a way the plague was spread

• Chickens

• Rats

• Fleas

• Ships