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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How did the British refer to the famine?
(a) Pandemic.
(b) Epidemic.
(c) Relief.
(d) Plague.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was not funded by the Irish Fever Act?

2. What attacked the corpses out in the open?

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

4. What was known to spread quickly on the ships?

5. What type of roof did most cabins have?

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