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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Chapters 20 - 25).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 21, what was one reason that Brendan Hughes and Gerry Adams were no longer friends?
(a) Adams had given the British information that had led to Hughes's arrest.
(b) Adams had written a book that was critical of Hughes.
(c) Adams had publicly blamed Hughes for the deaths that had happened on the hunger strike in the 1980s.
(d) Adams kept publicly denying his involvement with and membership in the IRA.

2. In Chapter 14, how did Dolours's and Marian's parents react to their hunger strike?
(a) They implored their daughters' friends in the IRA to try to get them to stop.
(b) They told their daughters to stop.
(c) They tried to intervene with the British government.
(d) They supported their daughters.

3. In Chapter 25, where did Brendan Hughes fly with his brother after leaving prison?
(a) France.
(b) Russia.
(c) Cuba.
(d) Italy.

4. In Chapter 23, what was one of the psychological stresses of family members of those who were disappeared that Keefe discusses?
(a) They had no way to file lawsuits against the perpetrators.
(b) They had no bodies to bury and no closure.
(c) They lived in fear that the same thing might happen to them.
(d) The churches would not allow them to have funerals for their loved ones.

5. In Chapter 21, who did Brendan Hughes tell Mackers had called the shots for the Provisional IRA while he was involved with the group?
(a) Pat McClure.
(b) Dolours Price.
(c) Joe Lynskey.
(d) Gerry Adams.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 13, how much money was Brendan Hughes offered by the British authorities to become an informant?

2. In Chapter 16, when the Price sisters were brought back to Northern Ireland, where were they imprisoned?

3. In Chapter 23, what did the McConville children think was a defining feature of their mother's clothing?

4. In Chapter 14, what was the vernacular for a prison guard?

5. In Chapter 15, where did Michael McConville wryly joke was his best home?

(see the answer key)

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