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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many passengers were allowed aboard compared to the five ton limit according to the Americans?
(a) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 7.
(d) 2.

3. Who replaced Peel as Prime Minister?
(a) Trevelyan.
(b) Rossa.
(c) Russell.
(d) O'Riordan.

4. What type of roof did most cabins have?
(a) Mud.
(b) Wood.
(c) Thatch.
(d) Sod.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What/who did the workhouses support?

2. Corpses were sewn into what objects?

3. How many acres were planted?

4. The Irish considered a wooden coffin to be the minimum requirement for the dead to maintain their:

5. Passengers were often faced with what group?

(see the answer key)

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