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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ratio represents the number of the poverty-stricken Irish?
(a) 3/8.
(b) 1/2.
(c) 5/7.
(d) 1/4.

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

3. Who had the highest status at the time?
(a) Merchants.
(b) Large farmers.
(c) Landlords.
(d) Laborers.

4. Which of the following was not listed as an occasion for farmers to travel away from the farm?
(a) Going to mass.
(b) Going to the market.
(c) Going to the doctor.
(d) Attending weddings.

5. According to some farmers, tribes of ___ must have been warring over the potatoes?
(a) Elves.
(b) Fairies.
(c) Merchants.
(d) Leprechauns.

Short Answer Questions

1. Many farmers believed that the blight could not survive what?

2. Where did the cause of the blight most likely come from?

3. How much of the harvest was lost in 1846?

4. Some "criminals" were transported to what location?

5. Who was hit the hardest by the famine?

(see the answer key)

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