OVERVIEW

Chapter 11
Health and Medicine

Multiple Choice

1. In the fourteenth century, how many people did the Black Death kill?
a. three-quarters of Europe’s population
b. two-thirds of Europe’s population
c. one-half of Europe’s population
d. one-third of Europe’s population

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2. What was the key factor that would have saved many lives during the Black Plague?
a. better sanitation
b. better nutrition
c. better medicine
d. better housing

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3. Which of the following had acquired religiously inspired habits of cleanliness that protected them from the plague?
a. Jews
b. Catholics
c. Waldenses
d. Protestants

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4. Benjamin’s religion required him to honour the higher power by performing regular bodily cleansing rituals. Which religion prescribed these practices and saved many people from contracting the Black Plague?
a. Roman Catholicism
b. Lutheranism
c. Judaism
d. Hinduism

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5. Why were the wealthy able to avoid the plague in Europe?
a. They washed their hands more than the poor.
b. The poor avoided them.
c. They could afford the finest medical care of the day.
d. They could flee densely populated cities for the countryside.

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6. Sir Thomas Waldicott, a titled nobleman, was able to take actions to save himself and his immediate family from contracting the Black Plague. What did he most likely do?
a. He purchased the best medical care available.
b. He barricaded himself and his family in their London townhome.
c. He avoided the poor in his city.
d. He took his family to their country estate.

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7. According to the learned Parisian medical community in 1345, what was the root cause of the Black Plague?
a. bilious humours in the body
b. an unfortunate planetary alignment
c. dragons moving in from the edge of the world
d. an epic battle between God and Satan

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8. Health risks are unevenly distributed in the population due to factors such as social class, race, ethnicity, and gender. Which of these claims follows from this statement?
a. Health is based on medicine, which transcends sociological concepts.
b. Health is not only a medical question but also a sociological issue.
c. Health is a medical and biological question rather than a sociological issue.
d. There are large biological variations in susceptibility to disease among humans.

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9. Which of the following is demonstrated by the fact that health risks are always unevenly distributed in a population based on social class, gender, and ethnicity?
a. Certain populations have susceptibility to disease, while others do not.
b. Health and disease are biologically based.
c. Disease and health are randomly attributed to people.
d. Social forces shape susceptibility to disease and health.

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10. What is the average age of death within a population called?
a. the life course
b. the maximum average human life span
c. the life rate
d. the life expectancy

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