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Great Plague - Quickquiz

 You have 60 seconds to answer true or false to the questions below:

1. The Great Plague was an outbreak of Bubonic Plague.
2. The plague was spread by fleas that lived on the black rat.
3. The numbers dying fell in the summer.
4. Forgers made a fortune issuing counterfeit certificates of health.
5. The plague arrived in London in Spring 1665.
6. Dogs and cats were trained to kill rats.
7. Houses containing dead were marked with a blue cross.
8. 'Bring out yer dead' was the call for people to bring out dead bodies.
9. Bodies were buried in plague pits.
10. The highest numbers of deaths were in August and September.

 

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