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

2. Which of Jean McConville's children accompanied her to the waiting car with the people who abducted her from her flat?
(a) Terri.
(b) Archie.
(c) Michael.
(d) Helen.

3. What did Jean McConville say to the child who accompanied her to car waiting for her outside her apartment the night she disappeared?
(a) Call your grandmother.
(b) Tell Helen to give the children dinner.
(c) Watch the children until I come back.
(d) Call your father.

4. In Chapter 6, how was Hughes gravely injured?
(a) He was burned.
(b) He was shot.
(c) He was stabbed.
(d) He cut an artery jumping through a window.

5. In Chapter 8, how did the Provisional IRA deal with problems in its own ranks?
(a) By threatening members' families.
(b) By knee-capping members.
(c) By banishing members to the Republic.
(d) Through a court-martial process.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what did the McConvilles remember was written in graffiti across the family's door?

2. In Chapter 11, what did Marian and Dolours do the night before the London bombing in 1973?

3. In Chapter 2, how did Dolours Price describe her childhood from her adult perspective?

4. In Chapter 10, which informants did Brendan Hughes promise no harm would come to if they turned on the British for the Provos?

5. In Chapter 3, when did Michael McConville's father die?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 9, when did Michael McConville realize his mother was dead?

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

4. In Chapter 2, how did Arthur Price pass down his allegiance to republicanism to his daughters?

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

6. In Chapter 2, what did Dolours ask her Aunt Bridie as a child that adults would have found rude?

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

8. In Chapter 11, what was Dolours Price's role in the plan to bring the Provisional IRA's bombing campaign directly to London?

9. In Chapter 12, how did Brendan Hughes escape from Long Kesh prison?

10. In Chapter 10, why did Brendan Hughes feel guilty about the killings of Seamus Wright and Kevin McKee?

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