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Practice questionLife in the UK Test
What was the Black Death?
Correct answer
A form of plague that killed about one third of the population of England in 1348
Why
The Black Death arrived in 1348 and killed about a third of England's population, with a similar proportion in Scotland and Wales. The labour shortage that followed changed society, and peasants began to demand higher wages.
Answer choices
- AA civil war between two royal houses
- BA form of plague that killed about one third of the population of England in 1348
- CA famine in Ireland in the 1840s
- DA great fire that destroyed London