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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By August, the kitchens were feeding how many people per day?
(a) 3 million.
(b) 450,000.
(c) 1 million.
(d) 200,000.

2. What would people use to steal from farms?
(a) Small children.
(b) Long sticks.
(c) Guns.
(d) Trained dogs.

3. Passengers were often faced with what group?
(a) Immigration officers.
(b) Swindlers.
(c) Doctors.
(d) Pirates.

4. Corpses were routinely found by which of these groups?
(a) Magistrates.
(b) Priests.
(c) Shopkeepers.
(d) Farmers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How were the quarantined family members transported?

2. Which of the following was not a common ailment among the starving Irish?

3. The blight was wrongly considered to be a type of:

4. In what month did the 1846 blight begin?

5. Which of the following is not listed as a cause of death?

(see the answer key)

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