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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. How many days per year did the average farmer work to pay the landlord?
(a) 120.
(b) 80.
(c) 60.
(d) 150.

2. What/who did the workhouses support?
(a) Women and children.
(b) Potato crops.
(c) Destitute people.
(d) Farm laborers.

3. Who was James Mahony?
(a) Farmer.
(b) Artist.
(c) Politician.
(d) Laborer.

4. British Corn Laws established corn as what item?
(a) Vegetable.
(b) Grain.
(c) Fruit.
(d) Protein.

5. Who replaced Peel as Prime Minister?
(a) Rossa.
(b) O'Riordan.
(c) Russell.
(d) Trevelyan.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did the farmer have helping out in the fields?

2. What ratio represents the number of the poverty-stricken Irish?

3. What was the direction of the wind during the famine's second year?

4. Which of the following was not a common ailment among the starving Irish?

5. The imported corn could feed how many people?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author mean when she stated "entire families disappeared?"

2. What was the Rate-in-Aid Act and when was it passed by Parliament?

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 How did Peel attempt to get the Corn Laws repealed?

4. Who else had been influenced by the British government?

5. Recount the story of Bridget O'Donnel.

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

7. What were some of the hardships face by the emigrants?

8. Explain the physicians' advice to the sick and dying regarding disease.

9. New diseases began to plague the people. Describe the new illnesses and how they spread.

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

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