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?

1665

1721

1666

1722
2 What year is the plague?

1722

1666

1721

1665
3 What year is the Great Fire of London?

1661

1722

1666

1665
4 The Journal is

A diary

A first-person narrative

Third-person

A biography
5 The narrator's name is

D.D.

D.F.

F.H.

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

France

Ireland

Russia

Holland
7 The first affected parish was

Aldgate

St. Giles

St. Andrew's

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

Official royal proclamation

Rumors

Newspapers

Bills of Mortality
9 In June,

No one dies of the plague

The weather gets colder and deaths fall

Houses are shut up

The weather gets hotter and deaths rise
10 H.F. lives in

Aldgate

St. James

St. Andrews

St. Giles
11 H.F. is

A teenager

An elderly man

Unmarried

Married
12 Certificates of Health were granted

To shut up houses

To attest to the health of the individual

Only towards the end of the plague

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

A saddler

A doctor

A lawyer

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

His children

His sister

His wife

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

His servant deserts him

He cannot get a horse

He is a doctor and must stay

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

Proverbs

Psalms

Luke

Ephesians
17 After he decides to stay,

He breaks his leg

He gets the plague

He dies

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

London was destroyed by fire

London was high in population

London was politically unstable

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

Fire

Terrible storm

Comet

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

Quack doctors

Fortunetellers

Astrologers

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

A comet destroying the city

A massive conflagration

An angel with a flaming sword

A demon
22 When H.F. says he cannot see a ghost that a group of people profess to see,

He throws himself to the ground

He lies and says he can see it

They almost beat him up

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

Exacerbated the breaches between denominations

Healed some of the breaches between denominations

Made people less religious

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

Lawyers

Politicians

Doctors

Servants
25 H.F. observed that many people

Avoided religion

Were evil and blasphemous

Were not afraid of the plague

Confessed their sins and asked for mercy

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

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Draw Conclusions Reread paragraph 1. Which details suggest that the plague affects family relationships and friendships? What conclusions can you draw about the plague's impact on relationships?

Paragraph one, chapter?

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What effect does the repetition in the novel have on your understanding of events?

The repetition of what exactly?

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