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WorksheetsHistory Summer Exam 2020
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 7mins
What is a tenement?
a large building where people worked in return for basic accommodation and food
a tax paid to the Church
where starving people could get soup
a building housing a large number of families in separate rooms
What was potato blight?
A type of dinner made from potatoes
A disease people got from eating too many potatoes
A fair where potatoes where sold
a fungus that spreads in damp and humid weather and destroys potato crops
When someone is forced out of their homes is called ...
eviction
tenement
emancipation
cottier
When each tenant's farmer's fields were grouped together in one small farm, fenced off, instead of in strips all across the landlord's land is called ...
(a)
Who was known as 'the Liberator'?
Charles Stewart Parnell
Michael Collins
Daniel O'Connell
James Connolly
What was the Norfolk System?
a four crop rotation cycle of wheat, turnips, oats/barley and clover/grass over four years
reserving the largest or most suitable animals for breeding rather than for meat.
cutting crops with a horse drawn cart with a cutting blade neatly in straight rows
when someone is forced out of their home
Who founded the GAA?
James Connolly
Michael Cusack
Douglas Hyde
Michael Collins
What is a constitutional nationalist?
someone who wants Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom
someone who wanted full independence from Britain and was ready to use physical force if necessary
someone who wanted to see the re establishment of a parliament in Ireland through political means
Who founded Sinn Féin in 1905?
Éamon de Valera
Eoin MacNeill
Cathal Brugha
Arthur Griffith
In what year did the first Dáil meet?
(a)
