WorksheetsTHE GREAT PLAGUE OF LONDON
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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.
