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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 8, who drives Joe Lynskey to his death?
(a) Brendan Hughes.
(b) Marian Price.
(c) Dolours Price.
(d) Gerry Adams.

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

3. In Chapter 4, who did the IRA sell off some of its weapons to in 1968?
(a) The Scottish police force.
(b) The Free Wales Army.
(c) The Libyan Free Force.
(d) The French insurgency.

4. In Chapter 2, where were Dolours Price and other marchers ambushed and beaten by British and loyalist counter-protesters?
(a) Hemmington Way.
(b) Stormont.
(c) Grosvenor Square.
(d) Burntollet Bridge.

5. In Chapter 4, what was one of the first jobs Dolours Price did when she joined the IRA?
(a) Ferried food across the border to political prisoners.
(b) Cleaned bullets with steel wool.
(c) Buried shrapnel from bombs in her garden.
(d) Killed someone.

6. In Chapter 8, what was the name of the prison ship the British used to house political prisoners?
(a) The SSS Mackaray.
(b) The HMP Maidstone.
(c) The SSS Maloney.
(d) The HMS Braveheart.

7. In Chapter 2, how did Dolours Price describe her childhood from her adult perspective?
(a) A strictly religious upbringing.
(b) A loving and peaceful environment.
(c) A horror show.
(d) An indoctrination.

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

9. In Chapter 11, what did police think was odd at first about a green Corsair parked near Scotland Yard in March 1973?
(a) It had no seat belts.
(b) It was very badly scratched.
(c) It had no driver.
(d) It had no tax disc and the license plate dates did not match the make of the car's model.

10. Where did Jean McConville live when she was disappeared?
(a) The Lightback Road.
(b) Grosvenor Square.
(c) Divis Flats.
(d) Belfast Garden.

11. In Chapter 8, what was the pseudonym Gerry Adams used?
(a) Gerry McGuigan.
(b) Joe McGuigan.
(c) Mark Meadows.
(d) Brendan McIntyre.

12. In Chapter 5, what ancient mode of humiliation were women in Belfast seen consorting with a British soldier subjected to?
(a) Having urine thrown at them.
(b) Tarring and feathering.
(c) Staying in blocks in the town square.
(d) Stoning.

13. In Chapter 12, how did Brendan Hughes escape from Long Kesh?
(a) He wore a prison guard's clothes.
(b) He had a helicopter come for him in the prison yard.
(c) He wore nun's clothes.
(d) He hid inside a mattress and left in a garbage truck.

14. In Chapter 3, what religion was Jean McConville raised in?
(a) Protestant.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Muslim.
(d) Jewish.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 6, who personally brought a doctor to see Hughes at risk to himself?

2. 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?

3. In Chapter 8, what did Gerry Adams tell Frank Steele he wanted to do one day?

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

5. In Chapter 11, which airport was the Provo bombing team arrested at in March 1973 after carrying out the bombing campaign in London?

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