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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 4, who saved Dolours Price from having her gun discovered at a British Army checkpoint?
(a) Gerry Adams.
(b) Eamonn McCann.
(c) Brendan Hughes.
(d) Her mother Chrissie.

2. In Chapter 3, who was Jean McConville married to?
(a) Bernard McConville.
(b) Mark McConville.
(c) John McConville.
(d) Arthur McConville.

3. In Chapter 11, what name did Dolours Price use when she traveled to London in 1973?
(a) Marian Richardson.
(b) Una Devlin.
(c) Gilly Frank.
(d) Gemma Roman.

4. In Chapter 10, where had Frank Kitson served for the British army before coming to Belfast?
(a) Johannesburg.
(b) New Dheli.
(c) Kenya.
(d) Dublin.

5. In Chapter 8, what ambitious IRA campaign did Brendan Hughes plan?
(a) Rounding up the wives of British soldiers and ransoming them.
(b) Kidnapping the British Prime Minister.
(c) A bombing campaign in the heart of Belfast that ended up killing 9 people.
(d) Bombing British Parliament.

6. What nickname did the Price sisters eventually come to be known by?
(a) The Beauties.
(b) The Romers.
(c) The Black Widows.
(d) The Crazy Prices.

7. In Chapter 7, what elite British group operating in Northern Ireland was a remnant of Frank Kitson's colonial philosophies?
(a) The M15.
(b) The Dark Spies.
(c) The Radical Lefties.
(d) The MRF.

8. In Chapter 7, what was the biggest challenge facing the new British general in charge of Northern Ireland when he took over in the early 1970s?
(a) A lack of money.
(b) A lack of arms.
(c) A lack of soldiers.
(d) A lack of good intelligence.

9. In Chapter 11, what did Marian and Dolours do the night before the London bombing in 1973?
(a) Went to see old friends at a Provo safe house.
(b) Went to the theater.
(c) Went to the pub.
(d) Went to a fancy dinner.

10. 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) Call your grandmother.
(c) Call your father.
(d) Watch the children until I come back.

11. In Chapter 6, who personally brought a doctor to see Hughes at risk to himself?
(a) Anthony McIntyre.
(b) Ian Paisley.
(c) Gerry Adams.
(d) Ed Moloney.

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

13. In Chapter 11, who answered the phone at The Times of London to take the tip about the imminent bombings in London?
(a) Nellie Bly.
(b) Elizabeth Curtis.
(c) Megan McCardle.
(d) Sherry Jacobson.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, which aunt of Dolours Price's did she sometimes help look after?

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

3. In Chapter 13, how much money was Brendan Hughes offered by the British authorities to become an informant?

4. In Chapter 10, who was killed in the laundry van ambush in 1972?

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

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