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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 21, what did Ricky O'Rawe tell Mackers about Gerry Adams and the hunger strike in the 1980s?
(a) Adams ordered the hunger strikers not to take a deal offered by the British, resulting in the deaths of all the hunger strikers.
(b) Adams had wanted to participate in the hunger strike himself but the IRA leadership had forbidden it.
(c) Adams had told the hunger strikers in the 1980s to stop their strike, but they had refused.
(d) Adams had wanted the Price sisters to resume their hunger strike because he thought they would get more attention because they were women.

2. In Chapter 19, who did Brendan Hughes travel to New York to meet?
(a) People in the U.S. Democratic Party.
(b) His family members who had emigrated decades earlier.
(c) Representatives from the Irish Northern Aid Committee, or Noraid.
(d) People in the U.S. Republican Party.

3. In Chapter 24, who was the British Prime Minister in 2012?
(a) Gordon Brown.
(b) Boris Johnson.
(c) Theresa May.
(d) David Cameron.

4. In Chapter 15, what did Gerry Adams believe about Sinn Fein as he was released from prison in 1977?
(a) Sinn Fein would be able to accomplish its main goals by having more IRA prisoners in jails on hunger strikes.
(b) Sinn Fein would never win elections without some loyalist support.
(c) Sinn Fein needed to recruit more female candidates.
(d) Sinn Fein needed to work more closely with the IRA.

5. In Chapter 19, which famous poet composed a poem for Dolours Price's children?
(a) Oscar Wilde.
(b) Marcus Twomey.
(c) Seamus Heaney.
(d) Daniel Rattigan.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 20, who was England's Prime Minister when the peace accord was signed in 1998?

2. In Chapter 25, in what year did Brendan Hughes die?

3. In Chapter 15, what did the Blanket Protest refer to?

4. In Chapter 18, which priest sometimes acted as a messenger for the IRA, while not condoning the group's violent activities?

5. In Chapter 14, who died on a hunger strike at a different prison while Dolours and Marian were undertaking their own hunger strike?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 15, what tactics did the so-called Blanket Men use in Long Kesh in the 1970s?

2. In Chapter 21, what stunning revelation does Ricky O'Rawe make to Mackers about Adams' part in directing the hunger strike in Long Kesh in the 1980s?

3. In Chapter 20, what does Keefe identify as a paradox in the way the people of Northern Ireland dealt with the sensitive information surrounding The Troubles?

4. In Chapter 14, what was one of Dolours's primary worries as she and Marian grew more ill on their hunger strike?

5. In Chapter 20, how does Mackers end up being the lead interviewer for the Belfast Project at Boston College?

6. In Chapter 14, what choice did the British authorities make in order to deal with Dolours' and Marian's hunger strike?

7. In Chapter 22, how did Trevor Campbell recruit some of the IRA informants he recruited over the years?

8. In Chapter 23, what jarring situation did Michael McConville, one of Jean's sons, find himself in as an adult one day regarding his mother's abduction?

9. In Chapter 16, what did Dolours Price say later in life about her relationship with food and eating?

10. In Chapter 21, why was Brendan Hughes so upset over the provisions of the Good Friday Agreement?

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