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The Famine

Authored by Michael Bracken

History

5th - 6th Grade

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The Famine
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The failure of which crop caused the famine?

Carrots

Potatoes

Wheat

Barley

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

By what name was the Society of Friends better known?

The Quakers

The St. Vincent de Paul

Trócaire

Concern

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What was the population of Ireland in 1841?

8,000

80,000

800,000

8,000,000

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What was the name of the potato that yielded a large crop, even from poor soil, which was widely grown during the famine?

Lumper

Kerr's Pink

Rooster

Golden Wonder

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Landlords who did not live on their estates were known as what type of landlord?

Absentee

Holiday

Missing

Present

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

In what year did the famine begin?

1825

1835

1845

1855

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What name was given to unnecessary roads, buildings and monuments built by landlords?

Wastes

Follies

Sillies

Unnecessaries

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