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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following was not funded by the Irish Fever Act?
(a) Coffins.
(b) Whitewashing houses.
(c) Hospitals.
(d) Vaccinating children.

2. In what year did Trevelyan approve an act to provide supplementary food?
(a) 1847.
(b) 1846.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1849.

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

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

5. What was the direction of the wind during the famine's second year?
(a) Southeast to Northwest.
(b) East to west.
(c) North to south.
(d) Northeast to Southeast.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was not a category listed for class status?

2. What word best describes the leaf of a potato plant?

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

4. According to the book, which of the following was not imported or exported?

5. The Irish considered a wooden coffin to be the minimum requirement for the dead to maintain their:

(see the answer key)

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