Landlords, Private Charity and Poor Law Historiography Quiz

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Great Irish Famine Exam (Week 5 - Relief in Practice: Landlords, Poor Law and Charity) Quiz on Landlords, Private Charity and Poor Law Historiography Quiz, created by Charlotte Peacock on 09/01/2017.
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Question 1

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Who wrote the saying: 'Irish property must pay for Irish poverty'
Answer
  • Cormac O Grada
  • Robert Peel
  • James Donnelly
  • Forey

Question 2

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Who walked around rural Ireland and helped poor people's lives - an example of private charity
Answer
  • Asenath Nicholson
  • Elizabeth Smith
  • The Quakers
  • Queen Victoria

Question 3

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[blank_start]Asenath Nicholson[blank_end] uses strong rhetoric and imagery to appeal to others to provide private charity, such as describing the suffering as '[blank_start]suffering[blank_end]' and [blank_start]'skeletal'[blank_end]
Answer
  • 'skeletal'
  • suffering
  • Asenath Nicholson

Question 4

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Who promoted the laissez-faire idea that if Ireland were to sustain their population they needed to revamp their economy and not just rely on the English economyy
Answer
  • Robert Peel
  • Sir John Russell
  • Charles Trevelyan
  • James Donnelly
  • Elizabeth Smith
  • The Times

Question 5

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Which historian is good for understanding British Public Attitudes?
Answer
  • Donnelly
  • O Grada
  • Treveleyan
  • Gray

Question 6

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Which newspaper/media referred to Irish oppressive landlords as reducing tenants to 'serfdom'?
Answer
  • Donnelly
  • The Illustrated London News
  • The Mirror
  • The Times
  • Punch Magazine

Question 7

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Which media production wrote that the 'squalid destitute' Irish many 'disgraced Christendom'
Answer
  • The Times
  • The Illustrated London News
  • The Mirror
  • The Daily Express

Question 8

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[blank_start]The Journals of Elizabeth Smith[blank_end] are useful for understanding the views of a [blank_start]racist[blank_end] British Protestant Irish Landlord - referring to her tenants and the Irish more broadly as 'other' - grotesque 'miserable [blank_start]creatures[blank_end]' - dehumanising and [blank_start]animalistic[blank_end].
Answer
  • The Journals of Elizabeth Smith
  • Asenath Nicholson
  • The Times extracts
  • racist
  • Well off
  • Philanthropic
  • creatures
  • poor
  • people
  • serfs
  • animalistic
  • other
  • catholic

Question 9

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What newspaper wrote that the English saw it as their duty to 'educate and elevate Ireland' by 'teaching the people how to educate and elevate themselves'
Answer
  • The Times
  • The Mirror
  • The Ireland
  • The Illustrated London News

Question 10

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Which three does Donnelly attribute as the British government's biggest failures
Answer
  • Refusal to stop grain exports
  • Not preventing the evictions of half a million people
  • Poor Laws
  • Blaming the landlords for all the problems
  • Laissez-fair approach

Question 11

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A great deal remains to be uncovered about the British public opinion, especially the middle classes
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 12

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What does Peter Gray argue?
Answer
  • The importance of providentialism for shaping British attitudes and desire to help Ireland
  • That the Irish economy could be easily restructured after the famine, reshaping agriculture
  • That the famine was a short-term evil for a long term improvement
  • That the media heavily shaped and reflected public attitudes

Question 13

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The National Fast Day highlighted how pivotal the public's attitudes were in government decisions regarding the Famine and relief
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 14

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Who argues that from 1846 and 1847 the British public experienced 'compassion fatigue' towards Irish relief
Answer
  • Melissa Fegan
  • James Donnelly
  • O Grada
  • Gray

Question 15

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'Donor fatigue' is a better description of British activities towards the Irish question, because it is hard to measure people's compassion - particularly when there is more to be done to uncover people's attitudes and feelings from this period
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 16

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All landlords were violent
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 17

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[blank_start]James Du Pre[blank_end] with estates in Tyrone reduced his tenants rents by 10 and [blank_start]50[blank_end] %, and offered tenants reduced rates for coal and Meal
Answer
  • James Du Pre
  • 50

Question 18

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In what town did Arthur Kennedy, British colonial administrator, report that 15 000 people were evicted by their landlords in one year alone
Answer
  • Cork
  • Tyrone
  • Skibereen
  • Kilrush

Question 19

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What was the name of the landlord who still went bankrupt and didn't evict any of his tenants during the famine?
Answer
  • James du Pre
  • Lord Gort of Calway
  • William Thackery
  • Arthur Kennedy
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