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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which item was chained to the table at the kitchen?
(a) Serving dishes.
(b) Spoons.
(c) Plates.
(d) Knives.

3. For the Irish, packing belongings was what kind of task?
(a) Laborious.
(b) Difficult.
(c) Soothing.
(d) Simple.

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

5. What job would be likely for one of the workers?
(a) Teaching day school.
(b) Building bridges.
(c) Crushing stone.
(d) Burning ruined crops.

Short Answer Questions

1. What group was the most helpful in supplying aid to the starving Irish?

2. What was the young man's offense?

3. What was commonly added to the water barrels?

4. What type of food was stolen from an untended pot?

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

(see the answer key)

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