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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused the hike in evictions?
(a) Landlord incentives.
(b) Higher taxes.
(c) Galway Act.
(d) Free passage to America.

2. How many passengers were allowed aboard compared to the five ton limit according to the Americans?
(a) 7.
(b) 6.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

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

4. Those evicting tenants often arriving carrying which item?
(a) Guns.
(b) Crowbars.
(c) Whips.
(d) Machetes.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of roof did most cabins have?

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

4. The Irish considered a wooden coffin to be the minimum requirement for the dead to maintain their:

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

(see the answer key)

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