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WorksheetsRAT 12 Great Plague
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What year was the Great Plague?
a)
1665
b)
1342
c)
1666
d)
1358
2.
How many people is it estimated the Great Plague killed?
a)
1 in 5
b)
1 in 2
c)
1 in 3
d)
1 in 4
3.
What was the most common belief of the cause of the Great Plague?
a)
miasma
b)
Jesus
c)
rats
d)
dirty water
4.
As people believed plague could be passed on by touch, how were victims treated?
a)
quarantined
b)
given a wash
c)
made to were a bell around their necks
d)
all made to live together
5.
What was transference?
a)
disease spread to something else
b)
what happens in the transfer window
c)
when you could see through someone
d)
using the right colour to balance your humours
6.
What was a quack doctor?
a)
doctor without qualifications
b)
doctor with qualifications
c)
a doctor who only looked at birds
d)
person who brought out the dead
7.
What was a pomander?
a)
ball containing sweet smell
b)
ball containing poo
c)
type of doctor
d)
place where people who had the plague were sent
8.
What new remedy was used to get rid of miasma?
a)
tobacco
b)
parsely
c)
chives
d)
basil
9.
How long would your house be in quarantine for?
a)
40 days
b)
2 weeks
c)
21 days
d)
a month
10.
Which of the following is NOT a way that the government reacted?
a)
killed all the rats
b)
killed the cats and dogs
c)
closed theatres
d)
burnt barrels of tar
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