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 sobre Landlords, Private Charity and Poor Law Historiography Quiz, criado por Charlotte Peacock em 09-01-2017.
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Questão 1

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

Questão 2

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

Questão 3

Questão
[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]
Responda
  • 'skeletal'
  • suffering
  • Asenath Nicholson

Questão 4

Questão
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
Responda
  • Robert Peel
  • Sir John Russell
  • Charles Trevelyan
  • James Donnelly
  • Elizabeth Smith
  • The Times

Questão 5

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

Questão 6

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

Questão 7

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

Questão 8

Questão
[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].
Responda
  • The Journals of Elizabeth Smith
  • Asenath Nicholson
  • The Times extracts
  • racist
  • Well off
  • Philanthropic
  • creatures
  • poor
  • people
  • serfs
  • animalistic
  • other
  • catholic

Questão 9

Questão
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'
Responda
  • The Times
  • The Mirror
  • The Ireland
  • The Illustrated London News

Questão 10

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

Questão 11

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

Questão 12

Questão
What does Peter Gray argue?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 13

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

Questão 14

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

Questão 15

Questão
'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
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 16

Questão
All landlords were violent
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 17

Questão
[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
Responda
  • James Du Pre
  • 50

Questão 18

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

Questão 19

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

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