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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the failed Irish rebellion?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1898.

2. How many of Ireland's unions were on the verge of bankruptcy?
(a) 40.
(b) 70.
(c) 90.
(d) 20.

3. How many people survived the emigration?
(a) 60%.
(b) 75%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 40%.

4. In which month was the report released?
(a) October.
(b) December.
(c) November.
(d) August.

5. Those evicting tenants often arriving carrying which item?
(a) Guns.
(b) Crowbars.
(c) Machetes.
(d) Whips.

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

7. What material was used to make the makeshift coffins?
(a) Rope.
(b) Leather.
(c) Canvas.
(d) Vinyl.

8. What disease was spread by lice?
(a) Dysentery.
(b) Arrhythmia.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Typhus.

9. To which city was the Illustrated News related?
(a) Skibberdeen.
(b) Galway.
(c) Bristol.
(d) London.

10. How did the potato crops fare?
(a) They flourished.
(b) They died.
(c) They struggled.
(d) They produced small amounts.

11. Leaders of Young Ireland feared being sent to which of the following?
(a) Penal colonies.
(b) Canada.
(c) Britain.
(d) Workhouses.

12. The leaders from Young Ireland went to which city?
(a) Munich.
(b) New York.
(c) Paris.
(d) Skibberdeen.

13. Landlords were required to pay for a tenant's stay in the workhouse for how long?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 6 months.

14. The O'Donnel baby was born with what problem?
(a) Typhus.
(b) Still-born.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Measles.

15. The famine caused which of the following to collapse?
(a) Government relief.
(b) Exports.
(c) International relations.
(d) Agriculture.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were the quarantined family members transported?

2. Whose home was commandeered by the military?

3. What attacked the corpses out in the open?

4. How were some landlords punished?

5. Passengers were often faced with what group?

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