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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did many of the landlords live?
(a) Dublin.
(b) Wales.
(c) Scotland.
(d) Britain.

2. Who was responsible for setting up soup kitchens?
(a) Winchester.
(b) Peel.
(c) Rossa.
(d) Brown.

3. In what year was the National School System established?
(a) 1814.
(b) 1853.
(c) 1838.
(d) 1831.

4. What/who did the workhouses support?
(a) Destitute people.
(b) Potato crops.
(c) Women and children.
(d) Farm laborers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the book, which of the following was not imported or exported?

2. The Irish considered a wooden coffin to be the minimum requirement for the dead to maintain their:

3. What was the direction of the wind during the famine's second year?

4. Who was hit the hardest by the famine?

5. In which county was a 16 year old arrested?

(see the answer key)

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