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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Jean McConville when she disappeared?
(a) 50.
(b) 25.
(c) 38.
(d) 45.

2. In Chapter 10, what problem did the Provos have when it came time to kill Kevin McKee?
(a) His captors had grown to like him and could not shoot him, so others had to be brought in to do it.
(b) A priest told the Provos not to kill McKee.
(c) His mother came to ask them to have mercy.
(d) He ran away and escaped.

3. In Chapter 13, what cover did Brendan Hughes use after escaping from prison to try to evade the authorities?
(a) Desk clerk.
(b) Toy salesman.
(c) Librarian.
(d) Chef.

4. What did Jean McConville say to the child who accompanied her to car waiting for her outside her apartment the night she disappeared?
(a) Call your father.
(b) Call your grandmother.
(c) Tell Helen to give the children dinner.
(d) Watch the children until I come back.

5. Which Protestant minister in Northern Ireland does Keefe describe as "rabid" in Chapter 2?
(a) Mark Fuddrone.
(b) Ian Paisley.
(c) Alec Parson.
(d) Michael Moore.

6. In Chapter 12, who was the lawyer for Dolours Price and the other London bombers?
(a) John Rawlson.
(b) Marlon Jeffries.
(c) Michael Mansfield.
(d) Anthony Mackers.

7. In Chapter 4, who was known as "Mac the Knife"?
(a) Mac Stiofain.
(b) Brian McIntyre.
(c) Anthony McIntyre.
(d) Stephen McDonough.

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

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

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

11. 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.

12. In Chapter 11, how many deaths were associated with the March 1973 bombing in London?
(a) One - a heart attack a man suffered in the aftermath of the bombing.
(b) Zero.
(c) Ten.
(d) Twenty.

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

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

15. In Chapter 8, how did the Provisional IRA deal with problems in its own ranks?
(a) By banishing members to the Republic.
(b) Through a court-martial process.
(c) By knee-capping members.
(d) By threatening members' families.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, who did the IRA sell off some of its weapons to in 1968?

2. In Chapter 9, which of the McConville children was old enough to live on her own but not to take guardianship of the other children?

3. Which of Jean McConville's children accompanied her to the waiting car with the people who abducted her from her flat?

4. In Chapter 8, who did Hughes determine shot the IRA man whose shooting he was investigating?

5. The night Jean McConville disappeared, where did she send her daughter Helen on an errand?

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