Lesson 1
1 Medicine in medieval England: Ideas about the cause of disease and illness Quiz: Pearson Edexcel History, Unit 2
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The 20 questions
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According to the Four Humours, what did good health depend on?
- Humour balance
- Surgical operations
- Clean drinking water
- Herbal antibiotics
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Which ancient physician's ideas remained influential in medieval England?
- Thomas Sydenham
- Edward Jenner
- William Harvey
- Galen
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What was the supernatural explanation for disease in medieval times?
- Blocked blood vessels
- Bad night air
- Punishment from God
- Unclean drinking water
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What did the miasma theory claim caused disease?
- Microscopic bacteria
- Imbalanced humours
- Harmful foul air
- Sinful behaviour
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A physician in 1300 blames a patient's fever on an imbalance of blood and phlegm. Which theory is he applying?
- Miasma
- Germ Theory
- Vaccination
- Four Humours
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What term describes a disease caused directly by sin and divine punishment?
- Rational
- Empirical
- Miasma
- Supernatural
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A town blames a sickness on foul air rising from marshes. Which theory fits best?
- Benefit of Clergy
- Four Humours
- Miasma
- Germ theory
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Whose ancient medical writings were heavily trusted and taught in medieval England?
- Harvey
- Galen
- Vesalius
- Hippocrates
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Which body fluid was one of the Four Humours?
- Sweat
- Saliva
- Black bile
- Tears
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Which humour is linked to melancholy?
- Blood
- Phlegm
- Yellow bile
- Black bile
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Which humour is associated with a cheerful and hopeful temperament?
- Blood
- Black bile
- Phlegm
- Yellow bile
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Which rational medieval theory blamed bad air for causing illness?
- Miasma
- Spontaneous generation
- Atomism
- Germ theory
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How did medieval people view the relationship between God and natural causes of disease?
- Combined together
- Strictly secular
- Mutually exclusive
- Purely scientific
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Which medieval treatment was directly based on the Theory of the Four Humours?
- Quarantine
- Antibiotics
- Bloodletting
- Vaccination
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Which rational theory was widely used to explain the spread of the Black Death?
- Miasma
- Contagion
- Germ theory
- Cell theory
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Which explanation linked illness to rotting matter in the air?
- Supernatural explanation
- Germ theory
- Four Humours
- Miasma
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Which idea shaped the treatment of plague by purifying the air?
- Germ theory
- Vaccination
- Miasma theory
- Antiseptics
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What dual approach characterized medieval explanations of disease?
- Religious and rational
- Empirical and modern
- Scientific and clinical
- Secular and mechanical
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Which bodily waste did a medieval physician examine to check humoral balance?
- Saliva
- Urine
- Stomach acid
- Sweat
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Which remedy was used in medieval England to restore humoral balance?
- Synthetic drugs
- Chemical antibiotics
- Herbal remedies
- Radiation therapy
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