View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not listed as a forgotten tradition?
(a) Wakes.
(b) Sunday meals.
(c) Welcoming strangers.
(d) Burials.

2. What were created to simulate traditional burial?
(a) Crematoriums.
(b) Mausoleums.
(c) Bottomless coffins.
(d) Tombstones.

3. Which of the following was not recommended for preventing disease?
(a) Wear clean clothes.
(b) Disinfect utensils.
(c) Whitewash your house.
(d) Bathe often.

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

5. Cummins contacted which of the following regarding the plight of the Irish?
(a) Earl of Sandwich.
(b) Duke of Wellington.
(c) Lord Trevelyan.
(d) Queen Victoria.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What kind of container was used to transport the harvested crops?

4. Which item was chained to the table at the kitchen?

5. What was the farmer's secondary crop?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 155 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample