By 1750, what percentage of the country’s population lived in towns?
20 per cent
40 per cent
50 per cent
In 1734, London had over 500 houses selling which very popular new drink?
Tea
Coffee
Hot chocolate
How often would people employ scavengers to empty their cesspits?
Every one or two weeks
Every one or two months
Every one or two years
When did the plague appear during this period?
Every 20 years, on average
Only in 1565
Only in 1665
By 1750, which idea about the causes of plague was more strongly emphasised?
It spread via rats and fleas
It spread through close contact with other people
It was caused by miasma
Which policy to prevent the spread of the plague was at the centre of Henry VIII’s order of 1518?
Street cleaning
Isolation
Building pest houses
Which of the following was not one of the 1578 Plague Orders issued by Elizabeth I?
Infected houses had to be shut up for six weeks
Barrels of tar had to be burned in the streets
Plague victims found mingling with others should be hanged
What was the main reason that gin drinking increased after 1660?
The number of wealthy people in the country increased
The taste was made more pleasant
Gin became much cheaper
Which of the following Gin Acts introduced harsh punishments for people caught selling gin illegally?
1729 Gin Act
1736 Gin Act
1751 Gin Act
Many towns had made improvements to their centres by 1750. Which group mainly benefitted from these changes?
The wealthy
The poor
Victims of plague