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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What group was the most helpful in supplying aid to the starving Irish?

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

3. Most of Ireland's economy was based on what?

4. Trevelyan closed the kitchens after seeing proof of which of the following?

5. In what year did Trevelyan approve an act to provide supplementary food?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was most affected by the British tax hikes and lack of assistance?

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

3. What was the Galway Act?

4. What were the weather conditions like in the spring?

5. Explain the basics of the population in Ireland and how they lived.

6. Name some of the things the emigrants took with them to America.

7. Describe the revolutionaries' trip to France.

8. Why was the summer of 1845 considered to be particularly fickle?

9. Who served as the head of the Treasury? What were the man's views on the famine?

10. What was one of the biggest benefits of the soup kitchens?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Detail the primary and secondary sources for Irish farmers, including how the various products were created, handled, and sold or consumed. Which source brought in the most money? Explain how a farmer might be able to recover from the famine by using other crops in the years following the famine.

Essay Topic 2

In addition to starvation, many of the Irish were contaminated and contracted various other diseases and ailments. List the diseases and ailments, what they are, the symptoms and cures (if any).

Essay Topic 3

Mass burial was a necessity during the height of the famine and the ensuing disaster. What caused so many of the people to die? How were the corpses handled? How does mass burial go against Irish tradition and religion? What else could have been done with the bodies? Why was lime used in the process?

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