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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Many farmers believed that the blight could not survive what?
(a) God's grace.
(b) Pesticides.
(c) Heat.
(d) Winter.

3. What disease was spread by lice?
(a) Arrhythmia.
(b) Typhus.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Dysentery.

4. Most of Ireland's economy was based on what?
(a) Breweries.
(b) Agriculture.
(c) Fishing.
(d) Tourism.

5. The blight was wrongly considered to be a type of:
(a) Bad luck.
(b) Dry rot.
(c) Fungus.
(d) Punishment from God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What often happened to people not accepted in the workhouses?

2. What was deposited due to wind and rain?

3. How many days in jail might one spend for trespassing?

4. Who was named as the new head of the British Treasury?

5. What ratio represents the number of the poverty-stricken Irish?

(see the answer key)

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