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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to some farmers, tribes of ___ must have been warring over the potatoes?
(a) Merchants.
(b) Fairies.
(c) Leprechauns.
(d) Elves.

2. What was considered to be a primary dietary staple?
(a) Sugar.
(b) Potato.
(c) Corn.
(d) Flour.

3. What system was designed to help workers earn money?
(a) Welfare.
(b) Public Works.
(c) Day Labor Camps.
(d) Industrial Labor.

4. What was the direction of the wind during the famine's second year?
(a) East to west.
(b) Southeast to Northwest.
(c) North to south.
(d) Northeast to Southeast.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Nicholas Cummins?

2. Trevelyan decided that the Irish could be saved via which food?

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

4. How fast did the blight travel across Ireland?

5. What happened to the man that stole the food?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did farmers protect their crops from theft?

2. Who served as the head of the Treasury? What were the man's views on the famine?

3. What were some of the hardships face by the emigrants?

4. How did the British deal with the uprising by the revolutionaries?

5. Who replaced Peel as Prime Minister? What was the man's view on the famine?

6. How did merchants and moneylenders take advantage of the situation?

7. The author states that the potato famine had little to do with the shortage of food. What was the real issue?

8. Describe the conditions on the ships sailing to America.

9. How much time did the farmers spend working to pay the landlords?

10. What happened to Diarmuid O'Donovan Rossa and his family?

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