THE GREAT PLAGUE OF LONDON

In the Great Plague of London, 1665, London lost roughly ___ of its population.

• 15%

• 10%

• 50%

_______ carried the fleas that caused the plague.

• Mosquitoes

• Rats

• Travellers

Those who could, including most doctors, lawyers and merchants, _____ .

• gave assistance to the contaminated people

• helped others

• fled the city

While 68,596 deaths were recorded in the city of London, the true number was probably _____ .

• over 1000,000

• over 100,000

• over 500,000

There are three types of plague. Most of the sick in 1665-1666 had ______.

• dengue fever

• bubonic plague

• Spanish fever

This created swellings (buboes) in the lymph nodes found in

• the armpits

• the groin

• the neck

• all of them

Bacteria are ____ .

• cause infections by entering and multiplying inside the host's healthy cells

• single cells that can survive on their own, inside or outside the body

Viruses ____ .

• are single cells that can survive on their own, inside or outside the body

• cause infections by entering and multiplying inside the host's healthy cells

This type of plague spread from ______ .

• a bite caused by a black cat flea that carried the Yersinia Pestis bacteria.

• a bite caused by a black rat flea that carried the Yersinia Enterocolitica bacteria.

• a bite caused by a black rat flea that carried the Yersinia Pestis bacteria.

Which was one of the government measures to put an end to the plague?

• Watchmen locked and kept guard over infected houses.

• Parish officials provided food and basic necessities to the quarantined families.

• Searchers looked for dead bodies and took them at night to plague pits for burial.

• All of them are correct.