A Journal of the Plague Year Quizzes

A Journal of the Plague Year Quiz 1

1 When was the Journal written?
1722

1666

1665

1721
2 What year is the plague?
1665

1722

1666

1721
3 What year is the Great Fire of London?
1722

1666

1665

1661
4 The Journal is
A diary

A first-person narrative

A biography

Third-person
5 The narrator's name is
F.H.

D.D.

D.F.

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

France

Ireland

Russia
7 The first affected parish was
St. Andrew's

Aldgate

St. James

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

Newspapers

Rumors

Bills of Mortality
9 In June,
No one dies of the plague

Houses are shut up

The weather gets hotter and deaths rise

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

Aldgate

St. James

St. Andrews
11 H.F. is
An elderly man

Married

A teenager

Unmarried
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 doctor

A saddler

A blacksmith

A lawyer
14 Who encourages H.F. to leave the city?
His brother

His wife

His children

His sister
15 All of the following are reasons why H.F. cannot or does not leave the city EXCEPT
He thinks God wants him to stay

He cannot get a horse

His servant deserts him

He is a doctor and must stay
16 H.F. decides to remain in London after reading a passage from
Ephesians

Psalms

Proverbs

Luke
17 After he decides to stay,
He dies

He falls ill

He breaks his leg

He gets the plague
18 H.F. comments that, at the time of the plague,
London was low in population

London was destroyed by fire

London was politically unstable

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

Comet

Fire

Falling star
20 The poor people of London embraced all of the following EXCEPT
Astrologers

Anarchists

Fortunetellers

Quack doctors
21 The superstitious crowd believed they saw ______ in the clouds?
A massive conflagration

A comet destroying the city

A demon

An angel with a flaming sword
22 When H.F. says he cannot see a ghost that a group of people profess to see,
They almost beat him up

He throws himself to the ground

They laugh at him

He lies and says he can see it
23 In terms of religion, the plague
Made people less religious

Healed some of the breaches between denominations

Changed nothing

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

Lawyers

Politicians

Servants
25 H.F. observed that many people
Were evil and blasphemous

Confessed their sins and asked for mercy

Were not afraid of the plague

Avoided religion