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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I (Chapters 1 - 7).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 4, what was one of the first jobs Dolours Price did when she joined the IRA?
(a) Ferried food across the border to political prisoners.
(b) Killed someone.
(c) Buried shrapnel from bombs in her garden.
(d) Cleaned bullets with steel wool.

3. How old was Jean McConville when she disappeared?
(a) 25.
(b) 45.
(c) 38.
(d) 50.

4. In Chapter 4, what was the nickname for the so-called Official IRA?
(a) The pacers.
(b) The toadies.
(c) The limes.
(d) The stickies.

5. In Chapter 5, what did the McConvilles remember was written in graffiti across the family's door?
(a) Brit Lover.
(b) Murderer.
(c) Informant.
(d) Tout.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 2, which aunt of Dolours Price's did she sometimes help look after?

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

4. In Chapter 6, who personally brought a doctor to see Hughes at risk to himself?

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

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