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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 14, who died on a hunger strike at a different prison while Dolours and Marian were undertaking their own hunger strike?
(a) Gerry Adams.
(b) Joe Lynskey.
(c) Brendan Hughes.
(d) Michael Gaughan.

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

5. 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 give the prisoners enough advice about how to survive force-feeding.
(d) 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.

6. In Chapter 15, where did Michael and Tucker McConville go after being convicted of shoplifting?
(a) The Christian Brother's Orphanage.
(b) The Mount St. Helen's Home For Boys.
(c) The Magdalene Laundry.
(d) La Salle Boys' Home.

7. 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.

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

9. In Chapter 22, why did Mackers tell Price to rethink her choice to talk on tape about her role in McConville's disappearance?
(a) Her children could suffer from the association with her if she confessed to involvement in McConville's disappearance.
(b) She might make herself vulnerable to retaliation by the IRA.
(c) She could be arrested for her confession on tape.
(d) She might implicate her sister unintentionally.

10. In Chapter 18, who was the leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party?
(a) John Hume.
(b) John McGinty.
(c) Martin McGuinness.
(d) Alec Reid.

11. In Chapter 20, who broke the IRA's code of silence in 2001?
(a) Martin McGuinness.
(b) Gerry Adams.
(c) Brendan Hughes.
(d) Marian Price.

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

13. In Chapter 19, which famous poet composed a poem for Dolours Price's children?
(a) Oscar Wilde.
(b) Marcus Twomey.
(c) Daniel Rattigan.
(d) Seamus Heaney.

14. In Chapter 21, what was one reason that Brendan Hughes and Gerry Adams were no longer friends?
(a) Adams had written a book that was critical of Hughes.
(b) Adams kept publicly denying his involvement with and membership in the IRA.
(c) Adams had publicly blamed Hughes for the deaths that had happened on the hunger strike in the 1980s.
(d) Adams had given the British information that had led to Hughes's arrest.

15. In Chapter 19, when was Brendan Hughes released from prison?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1990.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 16, what did Dolours Price she was reconsidering in a letter from prison to Fenner Brockway?

2. 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?

3. In Chapter 15, what did the Blanket Protest refer to?

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

5. In Chapter 15, when did Margaret Thatcher become British Prime Minister?

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