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Black Death

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the Black Death?

a)

Virus

b)

Strong Common Cold

c)

Infectious Disease

d)

Cut

2.

How did the Black Death get to Europe?

a)

Car and train

b)

Ship and Silk road

c)

Mail and Air

d)

Buggies and Mile runs

3.

How did the Black Death spread?

a)

Bacteria carried by fleas

b)

Jews poisoning drinking water

c)

Lepers open wounds

d)

Position of planets

4.

What was the plagues impact on the population?

a)

Doubled the population

b)

Killed 1/3rd of population

c)

Did not do anything to population

d)

Wiped out Central Asia

5.

What was the shift in power?

a)

From Monarchs to Knights

b)

From Peasants to Monarchs

c)

From Knights to Lords

d)

From Lords to Peasants

6.

How did the Bubonic Plague contibute to the decline of Feudalism?

a)

Killed off everyone in the Feudal system

b)

Gave more power to the clergy allowing them to gain more land and taxes

c)

Desperate need for workers and now workers could demand more rights

d)

Stopped all legal reforms which gave power back to its original owners

7.

Who got the Black Death?

a)

Old people

b)

Rich People

c)

Anyone

d)

Nobody

8.
Which of the following was an outcome for peasants in Europe after the Black Death c. 1340 CE?
a)
wages went down
b)
more land was available and wages increased
c)
social unrest decreased
9.
How did the plague increase the power of the common people?
a)
Sick people moved into the castles
b)
Lords were more likely to die from it
c)
It created a shortage of workers
10.
Which group got blamed for the plague in some areas of Europe?
a)
Catholics
b)
Christians
c)
Jews
d)
Muslims
11.

People didn't understand bacteria yet, so what or who did they blame for the Black Death?

a)

Position of planets

b)

Europeans

c)

Jews

d)

Fish in rivers

12.
How did the plague affect the Feudal economy of Europe?
a)
Feudalism remained unchanged
b)
Feudalism was made stronger
c)
Labor shortages ended feudalism, serfs and peasants demand higher pay
d)
Feudalism ended because all peasants died
13.

In what year did the Black Death begin?

a)

1000

b)

1300

c)

1347

d)

1352

14.

What is the author describing?

a)

The symptoms of the disease

b)

How quickly plague spread through Europe

c)

The social results of the Black Death

d)

Research on the influence of Black Death

15.

The Black Death was also known as the —

a)

Bubonic plague

b)

Flu epidemic

c)

Death epidemic

d)

Poison of the rats

16.

What was a result of the Black Death of the fourteenth century?

a)

African populations destroyed from disease

b)

African culture destroyed from forced slave captures

c)

war in western Europe

d)

dramatic shortages of laborers and people throughout Europe

17.

What did the scarcity of labor created by the Black Death cause?

a)

economic collapse

b)

a reduction in wages

c)

an increase in wages

d)

dependence on slavery