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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color are the flowers on a potato plant?
(a) Yellow.
(b) White.
(c) Purple.
(d) Pink.

2. How many days per year did the average farmer work to pay the landlord?
(a) 80.
(b) 120.
(c) 60.
(d) 150.

3. How much of the harvest was lost in 1846?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 1/3.
(c) 3/5.
(d) 3/4.

4. What was the farmer's secondary crop?
(a) Wheat.
(b) Barley.
(c) Corn.
(d) Potatoes.

5. To whom did the Prime Minister go to for help?
(a) House of Lords.
(b) House of Commons.
(c) Winston Churchill.
(d) Queen Victoria.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word best describes the leaf of a potato plant?

2. In what month did the 1846 blight begin?

3. What agreement officially joined the United Kingdom?

4. The Prime Minister set up what kind of committee as a result of the famine?

5. Who was James Mahony?

(see the answer key)

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