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(Week 5 - Relief in Practice: Landlords, Poor Law and Charity) Great Irish Famine Exam Test sobre Landlords, Private Charity and Poor Law Historiography Quiz, creado por Charlotte Peacock el 09/01/2017.

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Landlords, Private Charity and Poor Law Historiography Quiz

Pregunta 1 de 19

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Who wrote the saying: 'Irish property must pay for Irish poverty'

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Cormac O Grada

  • Robert Peel

  • James Donnelly

  • Forey

Explicación

Pregunta 2 de 19

1

Who walked around rural Ireland and helped poor people's lives - an example of private charity

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Asenath Nicholson

  • Elizabeth Smith

  • The Quakers

  • Queen Victoria

Explicación

Pregunta 3 de 19

1

Rellena los espacios en blanco para completar el texto.

uses strong rhetoric and imagery to appeal to others to provide private charity, such as describing the suffering as '' and

Explicación

Pregunta 4 de 19

1

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Robert Peel

  • Sir John Russell

  • Charles Trevelyan

  • James Donnelly

  • Elizabeth Smith

  • The Times

Explicación

Pregunta 5 de 19

1

Which historian is good for understanding British Public Attitudes?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Donnelly

  • O Grada

  • Treveleyan

  • Gray

Explicación

Pregunta 6 de 19

1

Which newspaper/media referred to Irish oppressive landlords as reducing tenants to 'serfdom'?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Donnelly

  • The Illustrated London News

  • The Mirror

  • The Times

  • Punch Magazine

Explicación

Pregunta 7 de 19

1

Which media production wrote that the 'squalid destitute' Irish many 'disgraced Christendom'

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The Times

  • The Illustrated London News

  • The Mirror

  • The Daily Express

Explicación

Pregunta 8 de 19

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Selecciona la opción correcta de los menús desplegables para completar el texto.

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

Explicación

Pregunta 9 de 19

1

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'

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The Times

  • The Mirror

  • The Ireland

  • The Illustrated London News

Explicación

Pregunta 10 de 19

1

Which three does Donnelly attribute as the British government's biggest failures

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 11 de 19

1

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

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 12 de 19

1

What does Peter Gray argue?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 13 de 19

1

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

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 14 de 19

1

Who argues that from 1846 and 1847 the British public experienced 'compassion fatigue' towards Irish relief

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Melissa Fegan

  • James Donnelly

  • O Grada

  • Gray

Explicación

Pregunta 15 de 19

1

'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

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 16 de 19

1

All landlords were violent

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 17 de 19

1

Rellena los espacios en blanco para completar el texto.

with estates in Tyrone reduced his tenants rents by 10 and %, and offered tenants reduced rates for coal and Meal

Explicación

Pregunta 18 de 19

1

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Cork

  • Tyrone

  • Skibereen

  • Kilrush

Explicación

Pregunta 19 de 19

1

What was the name of the landlord who still went bankrupt and didn't evict any of his tenants during the famine?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • James du Pre

  • Lord Gort of Calway

  • William Thackery

  • Arthur Kennedy

Explicación