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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 8, who did Hughes determine shot the IRA man whose shooting he was investigating?
(a) Dolours Price.
(b) Another IRA man named Joe Lynskey.
(c) Kevin Swift.
(d) Gerry Adams.

3. Which friend of Dolours Price's led protests but advocated non-violence?
(a) Gerry Adams.
(b) Eamonn McCann.
(c) Ed Moloney.
(d) Anthony McIntyre.

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

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

6. In Chapter 12, which famous actress offered to help post the London bombers' bail?
(a) Marian Richardson.
(b) Vanessa Redgrave.
(c) Celia Chetsky.
(d) Della Ray.

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

8. In Chapter 7, which British General used hard-line tactics in Northern Ireland?
(a) Marcus Staunch.
(b) Frank Kitson.
(c) John Windsor.
(d) Pomfrey Gliddington.

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

10. In Chapter 11, who was the leader of the team who brought the car bombs to London in March 1973?
(a) Dolours Price.
(b) Michael Dowry.
(c) Anthony McIntyre.
(d) Brendan Hughes.

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

12. In Chapter 4, where did Dolours's father Albert hide out while he was on the run?
(a) In London.
(b) In Paris.
(c) In Rome.
(d) In the Republic of Ireland.

13. In Chapter 10, who was killed in the laundry van ambush in 1972?
(a) Marshall Mathers.
(b) Sarah Kittry.
(c) Markie Malone.
(d) Ted Stuart.

14. In Chapter 5, what did the McConvilles remember was written in graffiti across the family's door?
(a) Informant.
(b) Brit Lover.
(c) Tout.
(d) Murderer.

15. 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) Seamus Wright and Kevin McKee.
(c) Ricky O'Rourke and George Shaw.
(d) Johnathan Darling and Paul Moloney.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what religion was Jean McConville raised in?

2. In Chapter 8, where did Gerry Adams and others meet with British representatives in the summer of 1972?

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

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 8, who drives Joe Lynskey to his death?

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