1.       In its relationship to the British Empire with the rise of capitalism, Ireland could be best defined as

a.        A client state

b.      A fraternal state

c.       An internal colony

d.      A free state

       2, The Irish Famine of the late 1840s was the result of

a.       British colonial policy which  forced the Irish majority to become subsistence potato farmers

b.      British “free market” policy which exported grains and meat from Ireland during the starvation

c.       Long-term British racist policies which portrayed the Irish people as subhuman and expendable

d.      All of the above

3. James Connolly, the major leader of the failed 1916 Easter Rebellion was

a.       A nationalist whose slogan was Ireland for the Irish

b.      A Marxist socialist republican whose writings were commented on positively by Lenin

c.       An advocate of a Catholic Ireland

d.      An advocate of the present partitioned Ireland

        4. People of Irish extraction from the late 19^th century on were important figures in the socialist and  later Communist  oriented wings of the U.S.  labor movement.

 Which of the following was not a class conscious, socialist/communist oriented trade union leader

        a. Peter McGuire of the Carpenters

        b. Michael J Quill of the TWU

        c. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn of the IWW

        d. George Meany of the Plumbers

5.  Karl Marx saw the Irish Question in his lifetime as

     a. undermining the solidarity of the British working class by using Irish “immigrants” as a source of    cheap labor, which the workers movement had to combat.

    b. Irish workers taking jobs from English workers

    c. a way to restore the supremacy of Catholicism in Britain

    d. An example of how an unregulated labor market benefitted all