A Journal of the Plague Year Quizzes

A Journal of the Plague Year Quiz 1

By Kristen Osborne · Edited by Christine McKeever · Last reviewed October 28, 2012

1 When was the Journal written?

1722

1665

1721

1666
2 What year is the plague?

1722

1665

1721

1666
3 What year is the Great Fire of London?

1722

1665

1666

1661
4 The Journal is

Third-person

A first-person narrative

A diary

A biography
5 The narrator's name is

D.D.

D.F.

H.F.

F.H.
6 The plague is rumored to originate in

France

Ireland

Russia

Holland
7 The first affected parish was

St. James

Aldgate

St. Andrew's

St. Giles
8 The first information of the plague comes from

Rumors

Bills of Mortality

Official royal proclamation

Newspapers
9 In June,

The weather gets hotter and deaths rise

Houses are shut up

No one dies of the plague

The weather gets colder and deaths fall
10 H.F. lives in

St. Giles

Aldgate

St. James

St. Andrews
11 H.F. is

Married

An elderly man

Unmarried

A teenager
12 Certificates of Health were granted

To shut up houses

To no one

Only towards the end of the plague

To attest to the health of the individual
13 By profession, H.F. is

A lawyer

A doctor

A saddler

A blacksmith
14 Who encourages H.F. to leave the city?

His children

His brother

His sister

His wife
15 All of the following are reasons why H.F. cannot or does not leave the city EXCEPT

His servant deserts him

He is a doctor and must stay

He thinks God wants him to stay

He cannot get a horse
16 H.F. decides to remain in London after reading a passage from

Ephesians

Proverbs

Luke

Psalms
17 After he decides to stay,

He breaks his leg

He falls ill

He dies

He gets the plague
18 H.F. comments that, at the time of the plague,

London was low in population

London was politically unstable

London was destroyed by fire

London was high in population
19 The major omen of the coming plague was a

Terrible storm

Falling star

Fire

Comet
20 The poor people of London embraced all of the following EXCEPT

Anarchists

Fortunetellers

Quack doctors

Astrologers
21 The superstitious crowd believed they saw ______ in the clouds?

A massive conflagration

A demon

An angel with a flaming sword

A comet destroying the city
22 When H.F. says he cannot see a ghost that a group of people profess to see,

He lies and says he can see it

He throws himself to the ground

They almost beat him up

They laugh at him
23 In terms of religion, the plague

Changed nothing

Made people less religious

Healed some of the breaches between denominations

Exacerbated the breaches between denominations
24 H.F. writes that the "case of poor _________ was very dismal."

Lawyers

Doctors

Politicians

Servants
25 H.F. observed that many people

Were evil and blasphemous

Avoided religion

Were not afraid of the plague

Confessed their sins and asked for mercy

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