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

2. The imported corn could feed how many people?
(a) 250,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 300,000.

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

4. What word best describes the leaf of a potato plant?
(a) Prickly.
(b) Broad.
(c) Short.
(d) Round.

5. Most of Ireland's economy was based on what?
(a) Agriculture.
(b) Tourism.
(c) Fishing.
(d) Breweries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would people use to steal from farms?

2. What/who did the workhouses support?

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

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

5. Which month was plagued by heavy rains?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the Irish Fever Act.

2. How did the British retaliate against the revolutionaries?

3. What is an "American wake?"

4. What happened to Diarmuid O'Donovan Rossa and his family?

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

6. How did merchants and moneylenders take advantage of the situation?

7. Describe how the blight arrived in Ireland and infected the crops.

8. Explain a typical eviction day.

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

10. Given an example of the lengths the Irish were willing to go to feed their families.

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