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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 15, what mistake did Brendan Hughes make when he set out organizing the hunger strike in prison?
(a) He did not give the decision-makers in the IRA enough notice to plan a public relations campaign related to the hunger strike.
(b) He did not give the prisoners enough advice on how to resist food.
(c) He did not stagger the start dates of the prisoners, so they all reached the same dire stage of failing health at about the same time.
(d) He did not give the prisoners enough advice about how to survive force-feeding.

2. In Chapter 15, what did the Blanket Protest refer to?
(a) Republican prisoners in British-run jails refusing to wear prison uniforms and instead wrapping themselves in blankets.
(b) A protest that covered a wide range of topics.
(c) Protests over forced prison labor being used to produce expensive blankets the British sold to tourists in Northern Ireland.
(d) Protests over the lack of blankets to keep people warm in Belfast.

3. In Chapter 17, who did Dolours Price marry in 1983?
(a) Donal Hughes.
(b) Bill Byson.
(c) Stephen Rea.
(d) Anthony McGinty.

4. In Chapter 15, when did Margaret Thatcher become British Prime Minister?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1979.

5. In Chapter 16, where did Marian Price go as soon as she was released from jail in 1980?
(a) To a convent.
(b) To America.
(c) To Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.
(d) Home to her parents' house.

6. In Chapter 15, what did Gerry Adams believe about Sinn Fein as he was released from prison in 1977?
(a) Sinn Fein would be able to accomplish its main goals by having more IRA prisoners in jails on hunger strikes.
(b) Sinn Fein would never win elections without some loyalist support.
(c) Sinn Fein needed to recruit more female candidates.
(d) Sinn Fein needed to work more closely with the IRA.

7. In Chapter 23, what alibi did Gerry Adams falsely offer that he said absolved him from involvement in McConville's disappearance?
(a) He was in prison at the time.
(b) He was out of the country at the time.
(c) He was in college at the time.
(d) He was not involved with the IRA at the time.

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

9. In Chapter 22, why was Brendan Hughes so convinced Jean McConville had been an informant?
(a) He insisted he saw secret messages she had written.
(b) He insisted he had seen her in disguise on the streets of Belfast.
(c) He insisted she had a transmitter in her house used to communicate with British forces.
(d) He insisted he had witnessed her meeting with British soldiers.

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

11. In Chapter 24, which of the McConville children went in first at the morgue to examine the clothing that had been found that authorities suspected might be Jean McConville's?
(a) Michael.
(b) Helen.
(c) Archie.
(d) Tucker.

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

13. In Chapter 21, who was in the picture on Brendan Hughes's wall with him?
(a) Jean McConville.
(b) Tony Blair.
(c) Gerry Adams.
(d) Dolours Price.

14. In Chapter 22, what principal did the Belfast Cop and RUC Special Branch member live by in recruiting informants?
(a) People will turn on their own family members only if they believe in what they are doing.
(b) Money is the best motivator.
(c) Everyone is recruitable.
(d) You need to get people to trust you in order to turn on their friends.

15. In Chapter 23, what was one of the psychological stresses of family members of those who were disappeared that Keefe discusses?
(a) They lived in fear that the same thing might happen to them.
(b) They had no bodies to bury and no closure.
(c) The churches would not allow them to have funerals for their loved ones.
(d) They had no way to file lawsuits against the perpetrators.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 22, when did Dolours Price's marriage to Stephen Rea end?

2. In Chapter 19, when did the IRA declare a cease-fire?

3. In Chapter 15, what did Kircubbin become infamous for years after its closing?

4. In Chapter 16, how did Dolours react to Marian's release from prison while she remained to serve her sentence?

5. In Chapter 17, where did Dolours Price decide she wanted to live once she was released from prison?

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