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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. About one-third of the Irish held what occupation?
(a) Sheep herder.
(b) Transportation worker.
(c) Farmer.
(d) Fisherman.

4. How many inhabitants were in Ireland at this time?
(a) 4.5 million.
(b) 8 million.
(c) 6 million.
(d) 3 million.

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

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

7. What was the young man's offense?
(a) Lying.
(b) Fishing.
(c) Stealing potatoes.
(d) Poaching.

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

9. What was to blame for Ireland's poverty?
(a) Famine.
(b) High taxes.
(c) Poor governance.
(d) Land system.

10. Farmers were given specific instructions on how to do which of the following:
(a) Salvage potatoes.
(b) Destroy the blight seed.
(c) Rotate crops.
(d) Grow soybeans.

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

12. Who was hit the hardest by the famine?
(a) Laborers.
(b) Tenants.
(c) Landlords.
(d) Children.

13. The crops were plagued by what?
(a) Blight.
(b) Heavy rains.
(c) Poachers.
(d) Overexposure.

14. Which of the following was not a common ailment among the starving Irish?
(a) Scurvy.
(b) Diarrhea.
(c) Consumption.
(d) Malnourishment.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What item was used to protect the crop after harvest?

2. Who was Nicholas Cummins?

3. The author writes about which county?

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

5. According to some farmers, tribes of ___ must have been warring over the potatoes?

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