Study guide for chapters two and three of The Great Mortality.

1. Chapter Two “ They Are Monsters Not Men”

2. What are the limitations of Y. pestis or the Black Plague? Why do people think it may have protected people during the plague? Page 36

4. What made the Tarabagan such a unique spreader of the plague? And how did the Tarabagan spread the plauge? Page 33-34.

6. What specific allele allowed some people to have a certain amount of immunity toward the plague? Why do some people think this?

8. How did y. pestis get its name?

10. “ The Day Before the Day of the Dead ” Chapter Three

11. What did the hard rains of the early 1300’s bring?

13. What three factors helped the Black Death along?

15. What made the black rat such a adequate spreader of plague?

17. What environments increased rat population?