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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which government program/act was terminated?
(a) Public Works Administration.
(b) Corn Laws.
(c) Penal Laws.
(d) Department of Welfare.

2. At what location did laborers gather to complain about lack of wages?
(a) Galway.
(b) Innisbrook.
(c) Skibberdeen.
(d) Dublin.

3. Cummins contacted which of the following regarding the plight of the Irish?
(a) Lord Trevelyan.
(b) Earl of Sandwich.
(c) Queen Victoria.
(d) Duke of Wellington.

4. In what month did the 1846 blight begin?
(a) August.
(b) June.
(c) October.
(d) March.

5. Farmers were given specific instructions on how to do which of the following:
(a) Salvage potatoes.
(b) Destroy the blight seed.
(c) Grow soybeans.
(d) Rotate crops.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of container was used to transport the harvested crops?

2. Who was hit the hardest by the famine?

3. How many acres were planted?

4. British Corn Laws established corn as what item?

5. How often did farmers pay the rent?

(see the answer key)

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