Plague, Pox and Antibiotics End Quiz

What did people in Britain gain for the first time 11,000 years ago?

• Not sure

• Grandparents

• A range of food types and medicines

Life expectancy over the last 11,000 years has...

• Increased

• decreased

• stayed the same

• Not sure

Life expectancy has increased over time because... (select two)

• Improvements in nutrition and hygiene,

• Improvements to housing, cleanliness and control of infectious diseases

• Overtime people have become more educated and smarter so they know how to survive better

• Not sure

Why was the life expectancy during 1840 still only 40 years of age?

• People didn't know what to do to live longer.

• Due to many illnesses and diseases that caused death.

• Not sure

When was the Great Plague?

• 1665

• 1950

• 1800

• It hasn't happened yet

What caused the Great Plague?

• infected fleas carried by black rats

• dirty water from the rivers because of sewage contamination

• Lack of medicine available and nutrition

• Not sure

What measures were taken to deal with the Great Plague? Tick three.

• A plague doctor would come to inspect suspected cases

• Families with cases were made to isolate

• Control of the movement of people and goods

• Nobody did anything so it spread quickly

Who was Edward Jenner? Tick two.

• A scientist who wanted to cure the Great Plague

• A scientist who invented the world's first vaccine

• A man who created the vaccine for smallpox

• The first male to die of the Great Plague in the UK

Medicine in Britain has...

• Improved in the last 250 years

• Become worse and less effective in the last 250 years

• Not changed much at all in the last 250 years

• Not sure

Tick the names of significant people whose discoveries have advanced medicine and life expectancy in the last 250 years.

Tick 2.

• James Simpson, Edwin Chadwick, Edward Jenner, John Snow, Joseph Bazalgette

• Louis Pasteur, Florence Nightingale, Joseph Lister

• Henry VIII, Queen Victoria, Robin Hood

• Boris Johnson, Teressa May, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak