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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was responsible for setting up soup kitchens?
(a) Rossa.
(b) Peel.
(c) Winchester.
(d) Brown.

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

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

4. What was to blame for Ireland's poverty?
(a) Famine.
(b) High taxes.
(c) Land system.
(d) Poor governance.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the famine strike?

2. What was often cooked with cabbage leaves?

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

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

5. How long would it take for the blight to destroy a potato field?

(see the answer key)

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