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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Pythopthora infestans?
(a) Snake.
(b) Parasite.
(c) Fungus.
(d) Small village.

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

3. What was often cooked with cabbage leaves?
(a) Leeks.
(b) Blood.
(c) Lamb.
(d) Potatoes.

4. Farmers were given specific instructions on how to do which of the following:
(a) Rotate crops.
(b) Salvage potatoes.
(c) Grow soybeans.
(d) Destroy the blight seed.

5. The Prime Minister set up what kind of committee as a result of the famine?
(a) Criminal investigation.
(b) Scientific.
(c) Political.
(d) Agricultural.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which month was plagued by heavy rains?

2. Where did many of the landlords live?

3. How many days per year did the average farmer work to pay the landlord?

4. What was the farmer's secondary crop?

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

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