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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 18, which priest sometimes acted as a messenger for the IRA, while not condoning the group's violent activities?
(a) Paul Robestone.
(b) Luke Parson.
(c) Matthew Malaney.
(d) Alec Reid.

2. In Chapter 23, where did the McConvilles gather on the basis of a tip from the IRA on where their mother Jean might be buried?
(a) Cooley Peninsula.
(b) Cobh in Cork.
(c) Glendalough.
(d) Dundalk lake.

3. In Chapter 21, what did Ricky O'Rawe tell Mackers about Gerry Adams and the hunger strike in the 1980s?
(a) Adams had wanted the Price sisters to resume their hunger strike because he thought they would get more attention because they were women.
(b) Adams had wanted to participate in the hunger strike himself but the IRA leadership had forbidden it.
(c) Adams ordered the hunger strikers not to take a deal offered by the British, resulting in the deaths of all the hunger strikers.
(d) Adams had told the hunger strikers in the 1980s to stop their strike, but they had refused.

4. In Chapter 14, how did Dolours's and Marian's parents react to their hunger strike?
(a) They implored their daughters' friends in the IRA to try to get them to stop.
(b) They tried to intervene with the British government.
(c) They told their daughters to stop.
(d) They supported their daughters.

5. In Chapter 25, in what year did Brendan Hughes die?
(a) 2000.
(b) 2012.
(c) 2008.
(d) 2006.

6. In Chapter 21, what did the Good Friday Agreement represent to Brendan Hughes?
(a) Acceptance by the republican movement that the British would remain in Northern Ireland.
(b) The culmination of all his work with the IRA.
(c) The right way to end decades of violence.
(d) The power of the British to overcome a violent insurgency.

7. In Chapter 19, who did Brendan Hughes travel to New York to meet?
(a) People in the U.S. Democratic Party.
(b) His family members who had emigrated decades earlier.
(c) People in the U.S. Republican Party.
(d) Representatives from the Irish Northern Aid Committee, or Noraid.

8. In Chapter 21, who did Brendan Hughes tell Mackers had ultimate control over the Unknowns?
(a) Pat McClure.
(b) Gerry Adams.
(c) Marian Price.
(d) Dolours Price.

9. In Chapter 24, where was Jean McConville's body found?
(a) Dollymount Strand.
(b) Carlingford Beach.
(c) Dundalk.
(d) Sandymount Strand.

10. In Chapter 17, how did Dolours Price react to Gerry Adams' decision to run for parliament at Westminster representing West Belfast?
(a) She told him she would support him if he would publicly admit to his role in the Provisional IRA.
(b) She made a point to stay neutral in the election.
(c) She renounced him and everything he stood for.
(d) She supported him and even brought voters to the polls to vote for him.

11. In Chapter 20, who was England's Prime Minister when the peace accord was signed in 1998?
(a) Tony Blair.
(b) David Cameron.
(c) Margaret Thatcher.
(d) Gordon Brown.

12. In Chapter 14, how did the British government deal with the Price sisters' hunger strike after it had been going on for about two weeks?
(a) They moved them to a separate place in the prison.
(b) They gave the sisters a new trial.
(c) They force-fed the Price sisters.
(d) They released the sisters.

13. In Chapter 22, who was the Belfast cop working for the Special Branch of the RUC who recruited many informants?
(a) Tucker Paul.
(b) Trevor Campbell.
(c) Mark Rudson.
(d) John Mulvaney.

14. In Chapter 14, which prison were Marian and Dolours Price kept at at first following the London bombings in 1973?
(a) Brixton.
(b) The HMS Maidstone.
(c) Long Kesh.
(d) Armagh.

15. In Chapter 15, which of the McConville children became a master of escape?
(a) Michael McConville.
(b) Agnes McConville.
(c) Tucker McConville.
(d) Edward McConville.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 15, which prisoner led the second hunger strike in Long Kesh?

2. In Chapter 15, what did the prison doctor bring to Hughes every morning while Hughes was on hunger strike?

3. In Chapter 21, why did Brendan Hughes tell Mackers he thought Jean McConville's murder had been justified?

4. In Chapter 15, what did Gerry Adams believe about Sinn Fein as he was released from prison in 1977?

5. In Chapter 15, what social club did Gerry Adams' father help to found?

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