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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 15, when did Margaret Thatcher become British Prime Minister?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1970.
2. In Chapter 15, what mistake did Brendan Hughes make when he set out organizing the hunger strike in prison?
(a) He did not give the prisoners enough advice on how to resist food.
(b) He did not stagger the start dates of the prisoners, so they all reached the same dire stage of failing health at about the same time.
(c) He did not give the decision-makers in the IRA enough notice to plan a public relations campaign related to the hunger strike.
(d) He did not give the prisoners enough advice about how to survive force-feeding.
3. In Chapter 14, which prison were Marian and Dolours Price kept at at first following the London bombings in 1973?
(a) Long Kesh.
(b) Brixton.
(c) The HMS Maidstone.
(d) Armagh.
4. In Chapter 14, which Irish republican poet and politician undertook a hunger strike in 1920 while being held in prison in England?
(a) Seamus Higgins.
(b) Mark Pearse.
(c) John Toney.
(d) Terrence MacSwiney.
5. In Chapter 21, why did Brendan Hughes tell Mackers he thought Jean McConville's murder had been justified?
(a) Hughes told Mackers that McConville had shot an IRA member.
(b) Hughes told Mackers McConville had been a Protestant married to a Catholic.
(c) Hughes told Mackers McConville had been an informer.
(d) Hughes told Mackers that McConville had vowed to destroy the IRA and the group had no choice but to protect itself.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter 15, which prisoner led the second hunger strike in Long Kesh?
2. In Chapter 17, where did Dolours Price decide she wanted to live once she was released from prison?
3. In Chapter 21, who did Brendan Hughes tell Mackers had called the shots for the Provisional IRA while he was involved with the group?
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 19, which famous poet composed a poem for Dolours Price's children?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 21, what was one important factor that soured the relationship between Brendan Hughes and Gerry Adams?
2. In Chapter 18, what role did Father Alec Reid play in relation to the Provos?
3. In Chapter 20, what role did President Bill Clinton play in the peace process in Northern Ireland?
4. In Chapter 16, what did Dolours Price say later in life about her relationship with food and eating?
5. In Chapter 20, what shortcoming of the Good Friday Agreement did the Belfast Project seem to correct?
6. In Chapter 16, who was the first hunger striker in Long Kesh to die and what was unusual about him?
7. In Chapter 21, what did Mackers find was true of his interviews with many former IRA members?
8. 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?
9. In Chapter 14, what was one of Dolours's primary worries as she and Marian grew more ill on their hunger strike?
10. 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?
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