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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word best describes the leaf of a potato plant?
(a) Round.
(b) Broad.
(c) Prickly.
(d) Short.

2. What were created to simulate traditional burial?
(a) Tombstones.
(b) Mausoleums.
(c) Bottomless coffins.
(d) Crematoriums.

3. 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.

4. According to the book, which of the following was not imported or exported?
(a) Grain.
(b) Livestock.
(c) Corn.
(d) Water.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How did the British refer to the famine?

4. Trevelyan decided that the Irish could be saved via which food?

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

(see the answer key)

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