Biology: Historical Epidemics
Test Quiz
1. What is a pandemic?
a. An epidemic that has spread across a large region
b. A small epidemic
c. An epidemic that was prevented
d. A type of vaccine
e. An epidemic that was started deliberately
2. What empire was affected by the Plague of Justinian?
a. Egyptian Empire
b. Inca Empire
c. British Empire
d. Byzantine Empire
e. Chinese Empire
3. What Greek leader was killed by the Plague of Athens?
a. Socrates
b. Pericles
c. Alexander the great
d. Draco
e. Solon
4. What disease do scholars believe likely caused the Plague of Athens?
a. Smallpox
b. Cholera
c. Typhoid fever
d. Influenza
e. Bubonic Plague
5. What disease caused the Black Death?
a. Smallpox
b. Cholera
c. Typhoid fever
d. Influenza
e. Bubonic Plague
6. How was the Black Death transmitted?
a. Infected food
b. Infected water
c. Mosquitoes
d. Fleas that lived on rats
e. Through the air
7. The Spanish Flu pandemic occurred during what major war?
a. World War II
b. World War I
c. Vietnam War
d. Spanish-American War
e. Hundred Years War
8. What major pandemic killed around one third of the people in Europe?
a. Plague of Athens
b. Plague of Justinian
c. Black Death
d. Spanish Flu
e. None of the Above
9. What disease brought by Europeans is thought to have killed as much as 90% of the natives living in the Americas?
a. Bubonic plague
b. Smallpox
c. Cholera
d. Malaria
e. Typhoid fever
10. Which of the following diseases still kills around 100,000 people each year?
a. Bubonic plague
b. Smallpox
c. Cholera
d. All of the above
e. None of the Above
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