A Journal of the Plague Year

The narrator in "A Journal of the Plague Year" is Daniel Defoe, the author of the book.

• True

• False

"A Journal of the Plague Year" is about:

• The Black Death of the 1350s

• The Spanish Influenza

• The Great Plague of London of 1665

• A fictional plague that the author made up

The narrator goes to the pit at night because

• during the day, the bodies are already covered with dirt.

• no one will see him if he goes at night.

• at night, the bodies are already covered with dirt.

• the sexton won't let him in during the day.

When the sexton says of the pit of bodies that it "is a speaking sight...and has a voice with it, and a loud one," what type of figurative speech is he using?

• caesura

• simile

• allegory

• personification

What characteristic best describes the narrator, based on the words the author uses to describe him?

• curious

• afraid

• disgusted

• uncaring

The names of churches and streets, the numbers of deaths, and the sizes of the pits all work to give this story

• empathy

• verisimilitude

• gravitas

• depth

"A Journal of the Plague Year" is

• Daniel Defoe's memoir of living during the plague.

• a work of historical fiction written by Daniel Defoe.

• a biography written about Daniel Defoe's life during the plague.

• Daniel Defoe's autobiography.