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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Corpses were sewn into what objects?
(a) Flour sacks.
(b) Shrouds.
(c) Sleeping bags.
(d) Pouches.

3. What was a major concern aboard the ships?
(a) Hygiene.
(b) Weather.
(c) Measles.
(d) Mutiny.

4. What kind of floors were the passengers used to in their homes?
(a) Thatch.
(b) Leaves.
(c) Dirt.
(d) Wood.

5. Which country is not referred to by Queen Victoria?
(a) America.
(b) France.
(c) Austria.
(d) Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Trevelyan approve an act to provide supplementary food?

2. Passengers were often faced with what group?

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

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

5. Trevelyan closed the kitchens after seeing proof of which of the following?

(see the answer key)

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