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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What/who did the workhouses support?
(a) Destitute people.
(b) Potato crops.
(c) Farm laborers.
(d) Women and children.

2. Many farmers believed that the blight could not survive what?
(a) Winter.
(b) Heat.
(c) God's grace.
(d) Pesticides.

3. What agreement officially joined the United Kingdom?
(a) Act of Union.
(b) Irish Penal Law.
(c) Magna Carta.
(d) Treaty of London.

4. Most of Ireland's economy was based on what?
(a) Agriculture.
(b) Breweries.
(c) Tourism.
(d) Fishing.

5. The blight was wrongly considered to be a type of:
(a) Bad luck.
(b) Dry rot.
(c) Fungus.
(d) Punishment from God.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following was not a common ailment among the starving Irish?

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

4. Who did not pay for the upkeep on the workhouses?

5. To whom did the Prime Minister go to for help?

(see the answer key)

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