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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was often cooked with cabbage leaves?
(a) Leeks.
(b) Blood.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Lamb.

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

5. What color are the flowers on a potato plant?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Purple.
(c) White.
(d) Pink.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What item was used to protect the crop after harvest?

3. What was not a typical cash crop for farmers?

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

5. The imported corn could feed how many people?

(see the answer key)

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