A Journal of the Plague Year Quizzes

A Journal of the Plague Year Quiz 1

1 When was the Journal written?
1666

1721

1665

1722
2 What year is the plague?
1722

1666

1721

1665
3 What year is the Great Fire of London?
1666

1722

1665

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.

F.H.

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

Russia

Ireland

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

Aldgate

St. Giles

St. James
8 The first information of the plague comes from
Rumors

Bills of Mortality

Newspapers

Official royal proclamation
9 In June,
The weather gets colder and deaths fall

The weather gets hotter and deaths rise

No one dies of the plague

Houses are shut up
10 H.F. lives in
Aldgate

St. Giles

St. James

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

Unmarried

A teenager

Married
12 Certificates of Health were granted
To no one

To attest to the health of the individual

Only towards the end of the plague

To shut up houses
13 By profession, H.F. is
A saddler

A doctor

A blacksmith

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

His brother

His children

His wife
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

He thinks God wants him to stay

His servant deserts him
16 H.F. decides to remain in London after reading a passage from
Psalms

Luke

Proverbs

Ephesians
17 After he decides to stay,
He falls ill

He gets the plague

He dies

He breaks his leg
18 H.F. comments that, at the time of the plague,
London was destroyed by fire

London was low in population

London was politically unstable

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

Falling star

Terrible storm

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

Quack doctors

Anarchists

Astrologers
21 The superstitious crowd believed they saw ______ in the clouds?
A comet destroying the city

A massive conflagration

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,
He throws himself to the ground

They laugh at him

They almost beat him up

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

Made people less religious

Healed some of the breaches between denominations

Changed nothing
24 H.F. writes that the "case of poor _________ was very dismal."
Politicians

Servants

Lawyers

Doctors
25 H.F. observed that many people
Avoided religion

Confessed their sins and asked for mercy

Were evil and blasphemous

Were not afraid of the plague