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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many days in jail might one spend for trespassing?
(a) 3.
(b) 7.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

2. Men often walked many miles to find what object?
(a) Pesticides.
(b) Corn.
(c) Cow.
(d) Bread.

3. The author writes about which county?
(a) Dublin.
(b) Killarney.
(c) Kent.
(d) Cork.

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

5. Which of the following was not recommended for preventing disease?
(a) Wear clean clothes.
(b) Disinfect utensils.
(c) Whitewash your house.
(d) Bathe often.

Short Answer Questions

1. How fast did the blight travel across Ireland?

2. Who did not pay for the upkeep on the workhouses?

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

4. Corpses were routinely found by which of these groups?

5. Which of the following was not listed as an occasion for farmers to travel away from the farm?

(see the answer key)

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