"A Journal of a Plague Year" Study Guide
1. What point of view does Defoe use?
2. Why does Defoe protect the identity of the merchant?
3. Why might the victims of the plague try and jump into the river or other water?
4. What provisions does the parish make for disposing of the bodies of plague victims?
5. What prompts the narrator to visit the pit?
6. Describe the pit?
7. What touching scene does the narrator observe in the churchyard?
8. What is the difference between a journal and a diary?
9. Compare(10) and contrast(11) Pepys's true account of the plague with Defoe's fictional account of it.
10. Compare
11. Contrast
12. Which description do you find more effective? Why?
