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

2. In Chapter 4, who was known as "Mac the Knife"?
(a) Brian McIntyre.
(b) Anthony McIntyre.
(c) Stephen McDonough.
(d) Mac Stiofain.

3. In Chapter 5, what were the names of the McConville family's dogs?
(a) Mikey and Sticky.
(b) Derrick and Provo.
(c) Provo and Sticky.
(d) Provo and Eamonn.

4. 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) Watch the children until I come back.
(c) Tell Helen to give the children dinner.
(d) Call your father.

5. In Chapter 8, what job did Gerry Adams once hold?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Bartender.
(d) Mechanic.

Short Answer 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?

2. In Chapter 8, who did Hughes determine shot the IRA man whose shooting he was investigating?

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

4. In Chapter 11, how many deaths were associated with the March 1973 bombing in London?

5. In Chapter 13, how much money was Brendan Hughes offered by the British authorities to become an informant?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In Chapter 3, what was the original vision for Divis Flats?

5. 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?

6. In Chapter 11, what did Price and the other Provos do the night before setting off their car bombs in London in 1973?

7. In Chapter 8, what tactics and methods did the Provisional IRA employ when they disappeared someone?

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

9. In Chapter 12, how did Dolours and Marian Price react to their conviction in court in London in 1973?

10. In Chapter 2, how does Keefe describe Patrick Pearse's mentality and motivations during the years leading up to the Easter Rising in 1916?

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