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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Farmers were given specific instructions on how to do which of the following:
(a) Grow soybeans.
(b) Salvage potatoes.
(c) Destroy the blight seed.
(d) Rotate crops.

2. In 1690, Protestant King William of Orange defeated the Irish at which river?
(a) Fergus.
(b) Shannon.
(c) Boyne.
(d) Danube.

3. What color are the flowers on a potato plant?
(a) Purple.
(b) Yellow.
(c) White.
(d) Pink.

4. What item was used to protect the crop after harvest?
(a) Ice.
(b) Pesticide.
(c) Water.
(d) Clay.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Pythopthora infestans?

2. Which of the following was not listed as an occasion for farmers to travel away from the farm?

3. In what year was the National School System established?

4. During which month was the first crop harvested?

5. How long would the imported corn supply last?

Short Essay Questions

1. Landlords soon found there was a cheaper and easier way to deal with evicted tenants. What was it?

2. How did Peel attempt to get the Corn Laws repealed?

3. What was the Galway Act?

4. Name at least two of the groups that supplied the most help to the farmers.

5. Although some farmers were concerned, many others were not. What was the prediction regarding the crops?

6. Explain why the workhouses fell into chaos during the second year of the famine.

7. What was the church's opinion on stealing food?

8. The Scientific Commission made several erroneous findings regarding the blight. What were they?

9. What was the proclamation made by the traveling priest?

10. What are cash crops? Why were they important to the farmer?

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