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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 15, what mistake did Brendan Hughes make when he set out organizing the hunger strike in prison?
(a) He did not give the decision-makers in the IRA enough notice to plan a public relations campaign related to the hunger strike.
(b) He did not give the prisoners enough advice on how to resist food.
(c) He did not stagger the start dates of the prisoners, so they all reached the same dire stage of failing health at about the same time.
(d) He did not give the prisoners enough advice about how to survive force-feeding.

2. In Chapter 10, what laundry company did the Provos ambush in 1972?
(a) The Basket.
(b) Shining Star.
(c) Four Square Laundry.
(d) The Clean Machine.

3. 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) Call your father.
(c) Watch the children until I come back.
(d) Tell Helen to give the children dinner.

4. In Chapter 17, who did Dolours Price marry in 1983?
(a) Bill Byson.
(b) Donal Hughes.
(c) Anthony McGinty.
(d) Stephen Rea.

5. In Chapter 11, how many deaths were associated with the March 1973 bombing in London?
(a) Ten.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Zero.
(d) One - a heart attack a man suffered in the aftermath of the bombing.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 13, what cover did Brendan Hughes use after escaping from prison to try to evade the authorities?

2. In Chapter 19, which famous poet composed a poem for Dolours Price's children?

3. In Chapter 16, what did Dolours Price she was reconsidering in a letter from prison to Fenner Brockway?

4. In Chapter 15, what did Gerry Adams believe about Sinn Fein as he was released from prison in 1977?

5. In Chapter 8, how did the Provisional IRA deal with problems in its own ranks?

(see the answer key)

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