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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was often referred to as the "gentleman who paid the rent?"
(a) Pig.
(b) Chicken.
(c) Farm hand.
(d) Landlord.

3. The crops were plagued by what?
(a) Poachers.
(b) Heavy rains.
(c) Blight.
(d) Overexposure.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How often did farmers pay the rent?

2. Which month was plagued by heavy rains?

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

4. What was to blame for Ireland's poverty?

5. In what year was the Poor Law Act established?

(see the answer key)

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