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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What group was the most helpful in supplying aid to the starving Irish?
(a) Knights Templar.
(b) Quakers.
(c) Tories.
(d) Congregationalists.

2. The imported corn could feed how many people?
(a) 250,000.
(b) 300,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 100,000.

3. Trevelyan decided that the Irish could be saved via which food?
(a) Bread.
(b) Rye.
(c) Soup.
(d) Millet.

4. In what year did Trevelyan approve an act to provide supplementary food?
(a) 1846.
(b) 1847.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1849.

5. Who was hit the hardest by the famine?
(a) Landlords.
(b) Tenants.
(c) Children.
(d) Laborers.

Short Answer Questions

1. British Corn Laws established corn as what item?

2. People were required to present which item to receive food?

3. Which item was chained to the table at the kitchen?

4. What was often cooked with cabbage leaves?

5. How were the quarantined family members transported?

(see the answer key)

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