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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was hit the hardest by the famine?
(a) Laborers.
(b) Children.
(c) Landlords.
(d) Tenants.

2. Who was often referred to as the "gentleman who paid the rent?"
(a) Landlord.
(b) Farm hand.
(c) Pig.
(d) Chicken.

3. Who suggested that Queen Victoria go to Ireland?
(a) The Pope.
(b) Former Prime Minister Peel.
(c) Sir Charles Trevelyan.
(d) Lord Clarendon.

4. Where did the cause of the blight most likely come from?
(a) Brazil.
(b) England.
(c) South Africa.
(d) Wales.

5. By August, the kitchens were feeding how many people per day?
(a) 1 million.
(b) 450,000.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 3 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Irish were told to move which item away from their doors?

2. Young Ireland was considered to be which kind of group?

3. In what county was the town?

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

5. In what month did the 1846 blight begin?

(see the answer key)

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