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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 16, how did Dolours react to Marian's release from prison while she remained to serve her sentence?
(a) She was furious at Marian for accepting her release.
(b) She was grateful that the IRA leadership had secured Marian's release but angry that she herself was still in prison.
(c) She was more determined than ever to secure her own release through another hunger strike.
(d) She was happy Marian was released but felt a deep sense of loss at losing her sister's companionship.

2. In Chapter 14, what happened to Marian and Dolours as soon as the force-feedings stopped?
(a) They went into comas.
(b) They were released from prison.
(c) They each lost about one pound per day.
(d) They were elected to Parliament.

3. In Chapter 15, where did Michael and Tucker McConville go after being convicted of shoplifting?
(a) The Christian Brother's Orphanage.
(b) The Magdalene Laundry.
(c) La Salle Boys' Home.
(d) The Mount St. Helen's Home For Boys.

4. In Chapter 22, who was one of the local IRA leaders who had argued that McConville should not be buried?
(a) John McGinty.
(b) Ed Gragret.
(c) Ivor Bell.
(d) James Cordry.

5. In Chapter 20, who broke the IRA's code of silence in 2001?
(a) Marian Price.
(b) Martin McGuinness.
(c) Gerry Adams.
(d) Brendan Hughes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 14, which Irish republican poet and politician undertook a hunger strike in 1920 while being held in prison in England?

2. In Chapter 15, what did Gerry Adams believe about Sinn Fein as he was released from prison in 1977?

3. In Chapter 21, which of the following did Brendan Hughes struggle with in the early 2000s?

4. In Chapter 24, which of the McConville children went in first at the morgue to examine the clothing that had been found that authorities suspected might be Jean McConville's?

5. In Chapter 20, which U.S. negotiator helped broker a peace accord in Northern Ireland?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 17, what are some of the difficulties Dolours Price and Stephen Rea encountered in their marriage?

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

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

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

7. In Chapter 14, how did the Price sisters' parents, Albert and Chrissie, respond to their daughters' hunger strike?

8. In Chapter 21, what did Mackers find was true of his interviews with many former IRA members?

9. In Chapter 16, who was the first hunger striker in Long Kesh to die and what was unusual about him?

10. 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?

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