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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the first name of Mrs. O'Donnel?
(a) Sioban.
(b) Bridget.
(c) Belinda.
(d) Sinead.

2. According to Rossa, what killed out the "good people?"
(a) Fairies.
(b) Tyranny.
(c) The British.
(d) Greed.

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

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

5. The Irish considered a wooden coffin to be the minimum requirement for the dead to maintain their:
(a) Souls.
(b) Pride.
(c) Dignity.
(d) Reputations.

6. What was a major concern aboard the ships?
(a) Weather.
(b) Measles.
(c) Hygiene.
(d) Mutiny.

7. Whose home was commandeered by the military?
(a) Peel.
(b) Rossa.
(c) Trevelyan.
(d) McCormack.

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

9. How old was Mrs. O'Donnel's son when he succumbed to the fever?
(a) 9.
(b) 12.
(c) 15.
(d) 13.

10. How were some landlords punished?
(a) Starved.
(b) Lynched.
(c) Whipped.
(d) Drowned.

11. What system was overwhelmed by the arrival of the Irish?
(a) Welfare.
(b) Naturalization.
(c) Immigration.
(d) Quarantine.

12. Which group was not influenced by the British government?
(a) French.
(b) Military.
(c) Emigrants.
(d) Germans.

13. What caused the hike in evictions?
(a) Galway Act.
(b) Free passage to America.
(c) Higher taxes.
(d) Landlord incentives.

14. Which of the following most embarrassed the British government?
(a) Inability to control Ireland.
(b) Continued destruction of crops.
(c) Juvenile inmates.
(d) Number of dying emigrants.

15. Young Ireland was considered to be which kind of group?
(a) Social.
(b) Radical.
(c) Revolutionary.
(d) Political.

Short Answer Questions

1. The act required assistance from which segment of the population?

2. What often happened to people not accepted in the workhouses?

3. The famine caused which of the following to collapse?

4. The leaders from Young Ireland went to which city?

5. When did the leaders arrive in the city?

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