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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In what year was the Poor Law Act established?
(a) 1838.
(b) 1842.
(c) 1821.
(d) 1853.

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

5. What was the weather like in May and June?
(a) Sunny.
(b) Rainy.
(c) Hot.
(d) Cold.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes about which county?

2. Other diseases were carried by which insect/animal?

3. In 1690, Protestant King William of Orange defeated the Irish at which river?

4. How often did farmers pay the rent?

5. The imported corn could feed how many people?

(see the answer key)

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