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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. What did Jean McConville say to the child who accompanied her to car waiting for her outside her apartment the night she disappeared?
(a) Call your grandmother.
(b) Tell Helen to give the children dinner.
(c) Call your father.
(d) Watch the children until I come back.

2. Where did Jean McConville live when she was disappeared?
(a) Divis Flats.
(b) The Lightback Road.
(c) Belfast Garden.
(d) Grosvenor Square.

3. In what year did Jean McConville disappear?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1972.

4. In Chapter 8, where did Gerry Adams and others meet with British representatives in the summer of 1972?
(a) Stormont.
(b) An estate house in Chelsea.
(c) Dublin Castle.
(d) Buckingham Palace.

5. In Chapter 8, what did the prison doctor on the prison ship tell Gerry Adams when he told the doctor it hurt to breathe?
(a) Cut your hair.
(b) Jump overboard.
(c) Stop breathing.
(d) Take this pill.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was Jean McConville when she disappeared?

3. In Chapter 4, what was the nickname for the so-called Official IRA?

4. In Chapter 11, which Times reporter beat the police to one of the cars in London that had been fitted with a bomb?

5. In Chapter 3, when did Michael McConville's father die?

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