National English Skills 7
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How well did you read?<br />
1 What is Samuel Pepys’s purpose in these diary entries?<br />
2 What value do these diary entries have for readers of the twenty-first century?<br />
3 Why do you think Pepys wrote ‘God preserve us all!’<br />
4 What does Pepys’s June 15th entry reveal about the Plague?<br />
5 ‘The coaches and wagons being all full of people going into the country.’ Why<br />
was this happening?<br />
6 Why did the Lord Mayor command people to stay indoors after 9 pm?<br />
7 What did Pepys see as he walked the streets on October 16th?<br />
8 ‘There is never a physician and but one apothecary [chemist] left, all being dead.’<br />
How would you account for this?<br />
9 How does Pepys’s entry for November 15 show that the death rate during the<br />
Plague had been extremely high?<br />
10 ‘There saw a wedding in the church, which I have not seen many a day.’<br />
Why would there have been very few weddings during the previous six months?<br />
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