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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 8, what did the prison doctor on the prison ship tell Gerry Adams when he told the doctor it hurt to breathe?
(a) Cut your hair.
(b) Jump overboard.
(c) Take this pill.
(d) Stop breathing.

2. In Chapter 11, which airport was the Provo bombing team arrested at in March 1973 after carrying out the bombing campaign in London?
(a) Greenwich.
(b) Gilead.
(c) Heathrow.
(d) Stansted.

3. In Chapter 8, what was the new prison being built at an airfield outside of Belfast?
(a) The Roadstone.
(b) The Fall Line.
(c) Long Kesh.
(d) The Maidstone.

4. How old was Jean McConville when she disappeared?
(a) 50.
(b) 38.
(c) 45.
(d) 25.

5. In Chapter 11, what did police think was odd at first about a green Corsair parked near Scotland Yard in March 1973?
(a) It was very badly scratched.
(b) It had no seat belts.
(c) It had no driver.
(d) It had no tax disc and the license plate dates did not match the make of the car's model.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what were the names of the McConville family's dogs?

2. In Chapter 11, what name did Dolours Price use when she traveled to London in 1973?

3. In Chapter 8, what was the pseudonym Gerry Adams used?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what difficulties did Arthur and Jean McConville face because of their backgrounds?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. In Chapter 3, what happens in the McConville family that makes Michael McConville think things can not get much worse?

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