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Short-Answer Questions

Each Short-Answer Question has 3 parts. Answer each part separately in complete sentences.
Your answer to each part should be 2 to 4 sentences and include specific evidence from the
time period.

1. Use the passage and your knowledge of European history to answer all parts of the
question that follows.
The European, in the face of the Black Death, was in general overwhelmed by a sense of
inevitable doom. If the plague was decreed by God and the inexorable movement of the
planets, then how could frail man seek to oppose it? The preacher might counsel hope,
but only with the proviso that the sins of man must first be washed away by the immen-
sity of his suffering. The doctor might prescribe remedies, but with the tepid enthusiasm
of a civil-defence expert advising those threatened by imminent nuclear attack to adopt a
crouching posture and clasp their hands behind their necks. The Black Death descended
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on a people who were drilled by their theological and their scientific training into a reac-
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tion of apathy and fatalistic resignation. Nothing could have provided more promising
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— British historian Philip Ziegler, The Black Death
(A) Describe the main argument the author makes about the Black Death in the passage.
(B) Describe ONE way that the Black Death impacted the cultural development of Europe
in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
(C) Explain ONE impact of the Black Death on the political or economic development of
Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

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