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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was the crop stored?
(a) In a warehouse.
(b) In a smokehouse.
(c) In a cellar.
(d) In a pit.

2. What agreement officially joined the United Kingdom?
(a) Irish Penal Law.
(b) Act of Union.
(c) Magna Carta.
(d) Treaty of London.

3. In what year did the famine strike?
(a) 1849.
(b) 1846.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1850.

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

5. Who was responsible for setting up soup kitchens?
(a) Peel.
(b) Brown.
(c) Rossa.
(d) Winchester.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many inhabitants were in Ireland at this time?

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

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

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

5. Most of Ireland's economy was based on what?

(see the answer key)

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