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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 15, what mistake did Brendan Hughes make when he set out organizing the hunger strike in prison?
(a) 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.
(b) He did not give the decision-makers in the IRA enough notice to plan a public relations campaign related to the hunger strike.
(c) He did not give the prisoners enough advice about how to survive force-feeding.
(d) He did not give the prisoners enough advice on how to resist food.

2. In Chapter 14, what was the vernacular for a prison guard?
(a) Screw.
(b) Stab.
(c) Narker.
(d) Wrobler.

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

4. In Chapter 8, which high-profile prisoner arrived on the prison ship in Belfast Lough in March 1972?
(a) Frederick McGinty.
(b) Gerry Adams.
(c) Anthony McIntyre.
(d) Paul Malone.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 8, what was the new prison being built at an airfield outside of Belfast?

2. In Chapter 4, who was the young Palestinian woman garnering attention for hijacking a plane?

3. In Chapter 5, what were the names of the McConville family's dogs?

4. In Chapter 15, which hunger striker asked Brendan Hughes not to let him die?

5. In Chapter 12, what did Dolours Price wear the day the jury's verdict was handed down in the London bombing case?

(see the answer key)

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