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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 10, what problem did the Provos have when it came time to kill Kevin McKee?
(a) A priest told the Provos not to kill McKee.
(b) His mother came to ask them to have mercy.
(c) His captors had grown to like him and could not shoot him, so others had to be brought in to do it.
(d) He ran away and escaped.

2. Where did Jean McConville live when she was disappeared?
(a) Belfast Garden.
(b) Divis Flats.
(c) The Lightback Road.
(d) Grosvenor Square.

3. In Chapter 8, what ambitious IRA campaign did Brendan Hughes plan?
(a) Kidnapping the British Prime Minister.
(b) A bombing campaign in the heart of Belfast that ended up killing 9 people.
(c) Rounding up the wives of British soldiers and ransoming them.
(d) Bombing British Parliament.

4. In Chapter 12, which famous actress offered to help post the London bombers' bail?
(a) Marian Richardson.
(b) Vanessa Redgrave.
(c) Della Ray.
(d) Celia Chetsky.

5. In Chapter 5, what ancient mode of humiliation were women in Belfast seen consorting with a British soldier subjected to?
(a) Staying in blocks in the town square.
(b) Having urine thrown at them.
(c) Tarring and feathering.
(d) Stoning.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, what unit was Brendan Hughes in charge of for the IRA in the early 1970s?

2. In Chapter 8, where did Gerry Adams and others meet with British representatives in the summer of 1972?

3. In what year did Jean McConville disappear?

4. In Chapter 3, who was Jean McConville married to?

5. Which friend of Dolours Price's led protests but advocated non-violence?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 13, how did Brendan Hughes evade detection and capture for a time after his escape from prison?

2. In Chapter 11, why did a British prosecutor suggest was evidence that the Provisional IRA did intend to kill people with its 1973 London bombings?

3. In Chapter 9, what happened to the McConville children after their mother Jean disappeared?

4. In Chapter 2, how was Dolours influenced by what happened at Burntollet Bridge?

5. In Chapter 6, what does Gerry Adams do for Brendan Hughes that deepens the two mens' bond?

6. In Chapter 8, what was the HMP Maidstone's purpose?

7. In Chapter 4, why is Eamonn McCann dismayed when he figures out his friend Dolours Price has joined the Provos?

8. In Chapter 1, how was Archie McConville treated by the men who took his mother Jean away?

9. In Chapter 8, what bombing campaign did Brendan Hughes help to plan in 1972?

10. In Chapter 12, who and what was involved in one of the IRA's boldest escapes from prison?

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