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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

4. In Chapter 21, who did Brendan Hughes tell Mackers had called the shots for the Provisional IRA while he was involved with the group?
(a) Joe Lynskey.
(b) Pat McClure.
(c) Dolours Price.
(d) Gerry Adams.

5. In Chapter 22, who was one of Mackers's closest friends from the IRA?
(a) Kevin McKee.
(b) Brian Twomey.
(c) Gerry Adams.
(d) Dolours Price.

6. In Chapter 20, which U.S. president took an interest in the peace process in Northern Ireland?
(a) George W. Bush.
(b) Bill Clinton.
(c) Ronald Reagan.
(d) Donald Trump.

7. In Chapter 16, when the Price sisters were brought back to Northern Ireland, where were they imprisoned?
(a) The Falls Prison.
(b) Armagh jail.
(c) Mountjoy Prison.
(d) Long Kesh.

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

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

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

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

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 22, who was one of the local IRA leaders who had argued that McConville should not be buried?

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

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

4. In Chapter 24, where was Jean McConville's body found?

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

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