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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Chapters 14 - 19).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 4, who saved Dolours Price from having her gun discovered at a British Army checkpoint?
(a) Her mother Chrissie.
(b) Gerry Adams.
(c) Brendan Hughes.
(d) Eamonn McCann.

2. What nickname did the Price sisters eventually come to be known by?
(a) The Black Widows.
(b) The Beauties.
(c) The Romers.
(d) The Crazy Prices.

3. In Chapter 16, where did Marian Price go as soon as she was released from jail in 1980?
(a) To America.
(b) Home to her parents' house.
(c) To Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.
(d) To a convent.

4. In Chapter 7, what unit was Brendan Hughes in charge of for the IRA in the early 1970s?
(a) The Post Malones.
(b) The Provisional Stockpile.
(c) The Belfast Brigade's D Company.
(d) The Marching Wallaces.

5. In Chapter 15, where did Michael and Tucker McConville go after being convicted of shoplifting?
(a) The Christian Brother's Orphanage.
(b) The Magdalene Laundry.
(c) The Mount St. Helen's Home For Boys.
(d) La Salle Boys' Home.

Short Answer Questions

1. The night Jean McConville disappeared, where did she send her daughter Helen on an errand?

2. In Chapter 3, where was the first child to lose his life in the Troubles killed?

3. In Chapter 10, where had Frank Kitson served for the British army before coming to Belfast?

4. In Chapter 7, what elite British group operating in Northern Ireland was a remnant of Frank Kitson's colonial philosophies?

5. In what year did Jean McConville disappear?

(see the answer key)

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