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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The Prime Minister set up what kind of committee as a result of the famine?
(a) Agricultural.
(b) Scientific.
(c) Criminal investigation.
(d) Political.

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

4. What type of food was stolen from an untended pot?
(a) Cabbage.
(b) Mutton.
(c) Rabbit.
(d) Potatoes.

5. Trevelyan decided that the Irish could be saved via which food?
(a) Rye.
(b) Bread.
(c) Soup.
(d) Millet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the farmer's secondary crop?

2. In what year did the famine strike?

3. People were required to present which item to receive food?

4. What was the new Prime Minister's royal title?

5. Where was the crop stored?

(see the answer key)

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