Chapter 5

Question 1

How did Charles 2 become King?

Answer 1

Oliver Cromwell’s son Richard didn’t want the job,so the Parliament asked Charles’ 1’s son to become King

Question 2

How did Charles 2 earn the nickname of Merry Monarch?

Answer 2

Charles 2 brought back all the sports and entertainments that had been banned.

Question 3

Charles 2 serious side

Answer 3

He encouraged scientific experiments and loved art,design, mathematics,drama and music.Careful to build a good relationship with the Parliament because he didnt want another civil war

Question 4

What were the symptoms of the bubonic plague

Answer 4

Vomiting and fever

Dizziness and hallucinations

Painful swellings in the groin, armpits and neck

Bleeding under the skin causes dark blotches to appear all over the body

Coughing up blood

Question 5

How did bubonic plague get its name?

Answer 5

It gets its name from the ‘buboes’ or huge round boils that appeared in a victims armpit or on their groin

Question 6

What did people at that time think caused the Great Plague

Answer 6

People suggested it may have been a punishment from God, the position f the planet, touching a cat or a dog, or caused by poisonous air (miasma)

Question 7

What were con artist that sold fake potions and pills that claimed could cure the Plague or prevent it named

Answer 7

quacks

Question 8

what were the famous and effective medicine to treat the plague

Answer 8

Avoid the plague:
Smoke Tobacco to Keep away the poisonous air that carries plague

Wear a dead frog around your neck

Carry a rabbit’s foot or another lucky charm

Question 9

What should you do if the plague is in your house?

Answer 9

Place a live frog next to the boil. The frog will suck up the poison, swell up and explode.

Drink plague water- a special mixture of 22 herbs mixed with white wine and brandy.

Question 10

How to prevent the spread of the plague?

Answer 10

Pubs and theatres are closed

Dog and cats are to be killed and all animals are banned from the city

Homeowners must sweep the streets outside their homes

Question 11

What is the Bill of Morality?

Answer 11

A weekly record of the deaths from plague

Question 12

Describe the plague doctor’s costume

Answer 12

Mask with glass visor, beak stuffed with perfume or spices

Stick to keep people away

Leather glovest avoid skin contact with the sick

Long leather coat to protect them from fleas

Question 13

What did King Charles II do to prevent the fire of London to spread further

Answer 13

he ordered houses to be pulled down, idea was to create firebreaks to stop the fire spreading to more houses or ordered houses to be blown up,but the man in charge of stopping the fire-Mayor of London was struggling with the king’s orders. People didn’t want to lose their homes so they only allowed their houses to be pulled down at the last moment

Question 14

How many homes did the Great Fire of London destroy?

Answer 14

13000 homes

Question 15

What is a scapegoat

Answer 15

Someone to be accused or blamed

Question 16

How was the idea of the new city in London designed?

Answer 16

Christopher Wren, Robert Hooke wanted a city with straight streets, wide open spaces and magnificent new brick or stone churches in homes

Question 17

What were the new rules for a new London?

Answer 17

Building new homes out of wood is banned

All new houses should be built of brick or stone

all new streets must be wide

100 streets must be widened

All new streets must be wide

Question 18

What was the first insurance company also known as

Answer 18

A new insurance company that was set up. A house owner would pay small sums of their money to insure their property, if a fire started, the employees of the insurance company would put out the fire using their own fire engine.

Question 19

How many people did the great plague kill

Answer 19

100,000