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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Chapters 8 - 13).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what were the names of the McConville family's dogs?
(a) Provo and Eamonn.
(b) Provo and Sticky.
(c) Mikey and Sticky.
(d) Derrick and Provo.

2. In Chapter 3, what was Divis Flats originally envisioned as?
(a) A prison.
(b) Part of a "slum clearance" program.
(c) A church.
(d) A place where the British could keep an eye on radicals.

3. In the early 1970s, what criminal activity did the Provos engage in to raise money?
(a) Selling bootlegged alcohol.
(b) Bank robbing.
(c) Selling flags.
(d) Selling drugs.

4. In Chapter 12, how did Brendan Hughes escape from Long Kesh?
(a) He hid inside a mattress and left in a garbage truck.
(b) He wore a prison guard's clothes.
(c) He had a helicopter come for him in the prison yard.
(d) He wore nun's clothes.

5. In Chapter 8, what was the new prison being built at an airfield outside of Belfast?
(a) The Maidstone.
(b) The Fall Line.
(c) Long Kesh.
(d) The Roadstone.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 11, what did Marian and Dolours do the night before the London bombing in 1973?

2. In Chapter 6, what was Brendan Hughes's nickame?

3. In Chapter 8, what was the pseudonym Gerry Adams used?

4. In Chapter 8, which high-profile prisoner arrived on the prison ship in Belfast Lough in March 1972?

5. In Chapter 8, what did Gerry Adams tell Frank Steele he wanted to do one day?

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