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Q1. According to the Theory of the Four Humours, what was believed to cause illness?
  • A.  An imbalance between blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile
  • B.  The presence of invisible germs in the body
  • C.  Poisonous air called miasma entering the lungs
  • D.  A weakness in the patient's astrological sign
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✓ Answer: A. An imbalance between blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile
The Four Humours theory, inherited from Hippocrates and developed by Galen, held that the body contained four fluids and that illness resulted when they fell out of balance. Miasma was a separate, later medieval idea about bad air causing disease, not the humoural explanation itself. Astrology was used to help diagnose which humour was affected, not as the root cause.
Q2. In the medieval period (c1250-1500), how were most English armies raised for a campaign?
  • A.  Through a professional standing army paid by the Crown
  • B.  Through the feudal obligation of lords to provide knights, backed up by paid retinues
  • C.  Through mercenary companies hired directly from France
  • D.  Through compulsory national conscription of all adult men
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✓ Answer: B. Through the feudal obligation of lords to provide knights, backed up by paid retinues
Medieval English armies combined feudal obligation (tenants-in-chief owing knight service) with paid retinues raised by indenture, especially from the 14th century onward. There was no professional standing army or national conscription at this time. France did supply some mercenaries to other states, but English armies were mainly home-raised.
Q3. What evidence suggests that not all Germans supported the Nazi regime, despite its propaganda and repression?
  • A.  Groups such as the Edelweiss Pirates and the White Rose resisted Nazi conformity and policies at real personal risk
  • B.  No German citizen ever expressed any disagreement with Nazi policy after 1933
  • C.  Free elections after 1933 regularly returned opposition parties to the Reichstag
  • D.  Independent newspapers freely criticised Hitler throughout the 1930s
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✓ Answer: A. Groups such as the Edelweiss Pirates and the White Rose resisted Nazi conformity and policies at real personal risk
Youth groups like the Edelweiss Pirates rejected Hitler Youth conformity, and student groups such as the White Rose distributed anti-Nazi leaflets, showing resistance existed even under a repressive, propaganda-saturated state. Opposition parties were banned after 1933, so C is false, and the press was tightly controlled by Goebbels' ministry, ruling out independent criticism (D).
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