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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Trevelyan closed the kitchens after seeing proof of which of the following?
(a) Absence of blight.
(b) Irish selling food on the black market.
(c) Abundant grain crops.
(d) Stabilization in the food markets.

2. In what month did the 1846 blight begin?
(a) March.
(b) August.
(c) October.
(d) June.

3. A "dip-at-the-stool" meal consisted of dipping potatoes into which liquid?
(a) Molasses.
(b) Salt water.
(c) Vinegar.
(d) Oil.

4. What was often cooked with cabbage leaves?
(a) Lamb.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Leeks.
(d) Blood.

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

6. What ratio represents the number of the poverty-stricken Irish?
(a) 5/7.
(b) 1/2.
(c) 3/8.
(d) 1/4.

7. Which item was chained to the table at the kitchen?
(a) Spoons.
(b) Serving dishes.
(c) Knives.
(d) Plates.

8. According to some farmers, tribes of ___ must have been warring over the potatoes?
(a) Elves.
(b) Leprechauns.
(c) Merchants.
(d) Fairies.

9. How many days in jail might one spend for trespassing?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 7.
(d) 2.

10. What was deposited due to wind and rain?
(a) Mud.
(b) Seeds.
(c) Spores.
(d) Locusts.

11. The crops were plagued by what?
(a) Blight.
(b) Poachers.
(c) Overexposure.
(d) Heavy rains.

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

13. What is Pythopthora infestans?
(a) Fungus.
(b) Parasite.
(c) Snake.
(d) Small village.

14. Which of the following was not listed as an occasion for farmers to travel away from the farm?
(a) Going to the market.
(b) Going to the doctor.
(c) Attending weddings.
(d) Going to mass.

15. The blight was wrongly considered to be a type of:
(a) Bad luck.
(b) Dry rot.
(c) Fungus.
(d) Punishment from God.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was James Mahony?

2. By August, the kitchens were feeding how many people per day?

3. What/who did the workhouses support?

4. Which of the following was not a category listed for class status?

5. In an effort to survive, some people abandoned which way of life?

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