Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

Patrick Radden Keefe
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

Patrick Radden Keefe
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Chapters 26 - 30).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 30, what does Keefe claim made him want to write this book?
(a) Reading Dolours Price's New York Times obituary in 2013.
(b) Hearing about the lives of the disappeared in Northern Ireland.
(c) The resurgence of violent outbreaks in Belfast related to the Troubles.
(d) Hearing his family's stories about Northern Ireland.

2. In Chapter 28, what did Gerry Adams say about the interviews with Brendan Hughes and Dolours Price that implicated him in many crimes?
(a) Both Hughes and Price had always had it out for him.
(b) Both Hughes and Price were from neighborhoods that were always at war with his neighborhood.
(c) Both Hughes and Price had judgement clouded by their time on hunger strikes.
(d) Both Hughes and Price were against the peace process and so their versions of events were unreliable.

3. In Chapter 26, what did the police ombudsman fail to find evidence for in her report on Jean McConville?
(a) That she had ever come to the aid of a British soldier in Divis flats.
(b) That she had renounced her IRA membership.
(c) That her first husband had been threatening her.
(d) That her child in foster care had tried to contact her.

4. In Chapter 19, who did Brendan Hughes travel to New York to meet?
(a) His family members who had emigrated decades earlier.
(b) Representatives from the Irish Northern Aid Committee, or Noraid.
(c) People in the U.S. Democratic Party.
(d) People in the U.S. Republican Party.

5. In Chapter 22, why did Mackers tell Price to rethink her choice to talk on tape about her role in McConville's disappearance?
(a) She might make herself vulnerable to retaliation by the IRA.
(b) She could be arrested for her confession on tape.
(c) She might implicate her sister unintentionally.
(d) Her children could suffer from the association with her if she confessed to involvement in McConville's disappearance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which friend of Dolours Price's led protests but advocated non-violence?

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

3. In Chapter 4, what was one of the first jobs Dolours Price did when she joined the IRA?

4. 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?

5. In Chapter 22, who was one of Mackers's closest friends from the IRA?

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