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2. Which of these is NOT suggested by historians to have been caused by the Black Death?

  • The slave trade
  • The Peasants' Revolt
  • The growth of the new 'Lollard' religion

3. In the second outbreak of the plague how did doctors help patients recover?

  • They burst their buboes
  • They gave plague patients crushed emeralds
  • They fumigated plague patients' houses with herbs

4. Armies attacking Caffa spread the plague into the town by...

  • selling bales of cloth infested with fleas
  • catapulting plague corpses into the town
  • letting loose flea-infested black rats

5. Who suggested the the Black Death came from outer space?

  • Graham Twigg
  • Fred Hoyle
  • G G Coulton

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