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The Black Death (6th Grade Social Studies)

This quiz, directed at children studying history in the sixth grade, is focused on arguably the greatest pandemic in history, The Black Plague – a disease spread from country to country by rats, which ultimately led to...

Questions: 7 | Attempts: 159 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2025

Sample Question 1
How do modern historians believe the Black Plague was spread in Europe?

God wanted to punish people.

People and living conditions were dirty.

Fleas living on rats, which came to Europe on trade ships.

Armies attacking cities flung dead bodies infected with the disease over the walls.

Sample Question 2
Which group of people was mistakenly blamed for starting the Black Death?

Soldiers in the Crimea

Jews

Peasants

The Black Death: Ancient History Quiz!

The Black Death was a ravaging global epidemic of the bubonic plague that attacked Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s. The outbreak appeared in Europe in October 1347 when 12 ships from the Black Death killed more than 20 million...

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 243 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2025

Sample Question 1
When did the plauge start?

1347

1357

1367

1557

1848

Sample Question 2
How many people died?

15 million

20 million

25 million

30 million

35 million