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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 college at the time.
(b) He was in prison at the time.
(c) He was not involved with the IRA at the time.
(d) He was out of the country at the time.

2. In Chapter 21, why did Brendan Hughes tell Mackers he thought Jean McConville's murder had been justified?
(a) Hughes told Mackers that McConville had shot an IRA member.
(b) Hughes told Mackers McConville had been a Protestant married to a Catholic.
(c) Hughes told Mackers McConville had been an informer.
(d) Hughes told Mackers that McConville had vowed to destroy the IRA and the group had no choice but to protect itself.

3. In Chapter 15, what social club did Gerry Adams' father help to found?
(a) The Cracked Cup Club.
(b) The Republican Club.
(c) The Gaelic Football Club.
(d) The Felons Club.

4. In Chapter 14, what was the vernacular for a prison guard?
(a) Wrobler.
(b) Screw.
(c) Stab.
(d) Narker.

5. In Chapter 21, what did Ricky O'Rawe tell Mackers about Gerry Adams and the hunger strike in the 1980s?
(a) Adams had wanted to participate in the hunger strike himself but the IRA leadership had forbidden it.
(b) Adams had told the hunger strikers in the 1980s to stop their strike, but they had refused.
(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 wanted the Price sisters to resume their hunger strike because he thought they would get more attention because they were women.

6. In Chapter 15, what did Kircubbin become infamous for years after its closing?
(a) Turning out religious terrorists.
(b) Physical, psychological, and sexual abuse.
(c) Unsolved murders that happened behind its walled garden.
(d) Growing superior vegetables for selling at markets.

7. In Chapter 15, where did Michael McConville wryly joke was his best home?
(a) Lisnevin.
(b) Mount St. Helen's Home.
(c) Kircubbin.
(d) La Salle.

8. In Chapter 21, how had Sean McKenna reacted to Brendan Hughes when McKenna ran into Hughes in Dundalk?
(a) McKenna was sad that so many of their mutual friends had died during the hunger strike.
(b) McKenna was angry at Hughes and told Hughes he should have just let McKenna die on the hunger strike.
(c) McKenna was grateful that Hughes had called off the hunger strike and had saved his life.
(d) McKenna was suspicious that Hughes might try to re-enlist him in the IRA's activities.

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

10. In Chapter 24, who was the British Prime Minister in 2012?
(a) Boris Johnson.
(b) David Cameron.
(c) Theresa May.
(d) Gordon Brown.

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

12. In Chapter 15, who was the prison doctor who oversaw the prisoners on the hunger strike Brendan Hughes led?
(a) Donal Ryan.
(b) John Jerome.
(c) David Ross.
(d) Marcus Hughes.

13. In Chapter 19, when did the IRA declare a cease-fire?
(a) August 1994.
(b) May 1988.
(c) December 1989.
(d) July 1992.

14. In Chapter 15, which hunger striker asked Brendan Hughes not to let him die?
(a) Pat Hawley.
(b) Pat Twomey.
(c) Sean McKenna.
(d) Brian McKenna.

15. In Chapter 15, which prisoner led the second hunger strike in Long Kesh?
(a) Sean McKenna.
(b) Brendan Hughes.
(c) Gerry Adams.
(d) Bobby Sands.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 14, what happened to Marian and Dolours as soon as the force-feedings stopped?

2. In Chapter 14, which Irish republican poet and politician undertook a hunger strike in 1920 while being held in prison in England?

3. In Chapter 20, who was England's Prime Minister when the peace accord was signed in 1998?

4. In Chapter 24, when did three thieves break into the Castlereagh complex looking for information on the identities of IRA informants?

5. In Chapter 21, who did Brendan Hughes tell Mackers had ultimate control over the Unknowns?

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