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

2. In Chapter 3, when did Michael McConville's father die?
(a) July 1965.
(b) January 1972.
(c) March 1970.
(d) April 1968.

3. In Chapter 10, which informants did Brendan Hughes promise no harm would come to if they turned on the British for the Provos?
(a) Arie McIntyre and Armie Blight.
(b) Ricky O'Rourke and George Shaw.
(c) Johnathan Darling and Paul Moloney.
(d) Seamus Wright and Kevin McKee.

4. In Chapter 8, how did the Provisional IRA deal with problems in its own ranks?
(a) By knee-capping members.
(b) By banishing members to the Republic.
(c) By threatening members' families.
(d) Through a court-martial process.

5. In Chapter 14, how did the British government deal with the Price sisters' hunger strike after it had been going on for about two weeks?
(a) They force-fed the Price sisters.
(b) They released the sisters.
(c) They gave the sisters a new trial.
(d) They moved them to a separate place in the prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, how did Dolours Price describe her childhood from her adult perspective?

2. In Chapter 8, what was an unlicensed drinking club in Belfast called?

3. In Chapter 15, where did Michael and Tucker McConville go after being convicted of shoplifting?

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

5. In Chapter 8, whose shooting did Brendan Hughes have to investigate within the IRA?

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