LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Keep the death totals secret
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Follow standard burial practices
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Prevent the spread of the disease
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Prevent the recovery of bodies
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Detailed explanation-1: -A Journal of the Plague Year is a work of fiction masquerading as a work of fact. It reads as if it were an unembellished account of the personal experiences of someone who survived the epidemic of bubonic plague that struck London in the summer of 1665.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why does the Sexton try to prevent the narrator from entering the burial ground? He is afraid of being infected. What horrors does the narrator witness during regular walks to his brother’s house? People are dying on the streets, women shrieking and crying, and people do harm to themselves and others.
Detailed explanation-3: -It is an account of one man’s experiences of the year 1665, in which the bubonic plague struck the city of London in what became known as the Great Plague of London, the last epidemic of plague in that city.
Detailed explanation-4: -“Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And ‘twill be found upon examination The latter has the largest congregation.” “Once ‘free’ in the streets, what then? Fear and panic could destroy the city as much as plague itself.