Quiz  /  Historical Epidemics

  • 1. 
    What is a pandemic?

  • A type of vaccine
  • An epidemic that was prevented
  • A small epidemic
  • An epidemic that has spread across a large region

  • 2. 
    What empire was affected by the Plague of Justinian?

  • Byzantine Empire
  • Egyptian Empire
  • Inca Empire
  • British Empire

  • 3. 
    What Greek leader was killed by the Plague of Athens?

  • Pericles
  • Socrates
  • Alexander the great
  • Draco

  • 4. 
    What disease do scholars believe likely caused the Plague of Athens?

  • Smallpox
  • Influenza
  • Typhoid fever
  • Cholera

  • 5. 
    What disease caused the Black Death?

  • Cholera
  • Typhoid fever
  • Smallpox
  • Bubonic Plague

  • 6. 
    How was the Black Death transmitted?

  • Mosquitoes
  • Infected water
  • Infected food
  • Fleas that lived on rats

  • 7. 
    The Spanish Flu pandemic occurred during what major war?

  • Vietnam War
  • World War II
  • World War I
  • Spanish-American War

  • 8. 
    What major pandemic killed around one third of the people in Europe?

  • Spanish Flu
  • Plague of Justinian
  • Plague of Athens
  • Black Death

  • 9. 
    What disease brought by Europeans is thought to have killed as much as 90% of the natives living in the Americas?

  • Malaria
  • Bubonic plague
  • Smallpox
  • Cholera

  • 10. 
    Which of the following diseases still kills around 100,000 people each year?

  • Cholera
  • Bubonic plague
  • Smallpox
  • All of the above
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