A Journal of the Plague Year Quizzes

A Journal of the Plague Year Quiz 1

1 When was the Journal written?
1666

1721

1722

1665
2 What year is the plague?
1665

1721

1722

1666
3 What year is the Great Fire of London?
1722

1665

1661

1666
4 The Journal is
A first-person narrative

A diary

Third-person

A biography
5 The narrator's name is
D.D.

F.H.

H.F.

D.F.
6 The plague is rumored to originate in
Ireland

Russia

France

Holland
7 The first affected parish was
St. James

Aldgate

St. Andrew's

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

Official royal proclamation

Bills of Mortality

Rumors
9 In June,
No one dies of the plague

The weather gets hotter and deaths rise

The weather gets colder and deaths fall

Houses are shut up
10 H.F. lives in
St. James

St. Andrews

St. Giles

Aldgate
11 H.F. is
A teenager

Married

An elderly man

Unmarried
12 Certificates of Health were granted
To attest to the health of the individual

To shut up houses

Only towards the end of the plague

To no one
13 By profession, H.F. is
A lawyer

A saddler

A blacksmith

A doctor
14 Who encourages H.F. to leave the city?
His wife

His sister

His children

His brother
15 All of the following are reasons why H.F. cannot or does not leave the city EXCEPT
He is a doctor and must stay

He cannot get a horse

His servant deserts him

He thinks God wants him to stay
16 H.F. decides to remain in London after reading a passage from
Ephesians

Luke

Psalms

Proverbs
17 After he decides to stay,
He gets the plague

He dies

He falls ill

He breaks his leg
18 H.F. comments that, at the time of the plague,
London was high in population

London was low in population

London was politically unstable

London was destroyed by fire
19 The major omen of the coming plague was a
Terrible storm

Falling star

Comet

Fire
20 The poor people of London embraced all of the following EXCEPT
Quack doctors

Astrologers

Fortunetellers

Anarchists
21 The superstitious crowd believed they saw ______ in the clouds?
An angel with a flaming sword

A demon

A massive conflagration

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

They almost beat him up

They laugh at him

He lies and says he can see it
23 In terms of religion, the plague
Healed some of the breaches between denominations

Changed nothing

Exacerbated the breaches between denominations

Made people less religious
24 H.F. writes that the "case of poor _________ was very dismal."
Servants

Doctors

Lawyers

Politicians
25 H.F. observed that many people
Confessed their sins and asked for mercy

Avoided religion

Were not afraid of the plague

Were evil and blasphemous

Explain what qualities and characteristics of the narrator help make the historical novel seem realistic?

The Journal is rife with stories of human suffering, both physical and psychological. Readers cannot help but be affected by the pervasive and continuous examples of despair, pain, and grief. In regards to physical suffering, Defoe concentrates on...

Asked by laral #1113734

Answered by Aslan on 2/17/2021 5:03 AM