Apples and the Four Humours | Listening – Advanced

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Watch the video, ideally at first without any subtitles, and answer the questions in the quiz below.

Created on April 07, 2021

Apples and the Four Humours

1 / 9

When did the period called as Black Death occur and how long did it last?

14th century, seven years

13th century, seven years

14th century, five years

13th century, five years

2 / 9

What size percentage of the population of Europe, Middle East and North Africa was wiped out during the Black Death?

25 to 50%

25 to 40%

20 to 40%

20 to 50%

3 / 9

They had a multitude of cures for the plague in the Middle Ages that actually worked.

FALSE

TRUE

4 / 9

Select everything that is said in the video about the humours.

If you were melancholic, it meant you had excess of black bile and needed to an enema.

The theory of the humours was first brought forth by the Ancient Greeks.

Humours were bodily fluids that controlled everything that happened in the body.

The four humours corresponded with the four elements.

If you had too much blood, you were sanguine and needed bloodletting.

5 / 9

When was the theory of the four humours definitely defeated?

6 / 9

Select everything that is mentioned in the video that can put the humours out of order.

stars

snakes

alignment of planets

weather

a bad wife

seasons

a curse

7 / 9

Select the four categories food was put in which determined how it affected the humours.

hot, warm, dry, wet

water, fire, earth, wind

ice, fire, sand, rain

cold, hot, wet, dry

8 / 9

Apples were, according to medieval scholars:

wet in the fourth degree

hot in the first degree

cold in the first degree

cold in the second degree

wet in the third degree

9 / 9

Name the two things mentioned in the video that would be more effective against the plague than apples.

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The average score is 62%

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