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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what location did laborers gather to complain about lack of wages?
(a) Galway.
(b) Dublin.
(c) Skibberdeen.
(d) Innisbrook.

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

3. What system was designed to help workers earn money?
(a) Welfare.
(b) Day Labor Camps.
(c) Public Works.
(d) Industrial Labor.

4. How much of the harvest was lost in 1846?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 3/5.
(c) 3/4.
(d) 1/3.

5. Where did many of the landlords live?
(a) Britain.
(b) Dublin.
(c) Wales.
(d) Scotland.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was named as the new head of the British Treasury?

2. What agreement officially joined the United Kingdom?

3. British Corn Laws established corn as what item?

4. Which month was plagued by heavy rains?

5. A "dip-at-the-stool" meal consisted of dipping potatoes into which liquid?

(see the answer key)

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