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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 the Good Friday Agreement represent to Brendan Hughes?
(a) The right way to end decades of violence.
(b) The power of the British to overcome a violent insurgency.
(c) The culmination of all his work with the IRA.
(d) Acceptance by the republican movement that the British would remain in Northern Ireland.

2. In Chapter 22, what was one of the Provisional IRA's execution squads called?
(a) The Black Squad.
(b) The Disappearance Squad.
(c) The Coffin Squad.
(d) The Nutting squad.

3. In Chapter 17, where did Dolours Price decide she wanted to live once she was released from prison?
(a) Barcelona.
(b) Dublin.
(c) Rome.
(d) New York.

4. On what day of his hunger strike did Bobby Sands die?
(a) 66.
(b) 80.
(c) 40.
(d) 95.

5. In Chapter 18, which group engineered the shooting of Gerry Adams?
(a) The Provisional IRA.
(b) The Royal Ulster Constabulary.
(c) The Ulster Freedom Fighters.
(d) The Official IRA.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 23, what alibi did Gerry Adams falsely offer that he said absolved him from involvement in McConville's disappearance?

2. In Chapter 20, who was the lead interviewer for the Belfast Project?

3. In Chapter 14, how did the British government deal with the Price sisters' hunger strike after it had been going on for about two weeks?

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

5. In Chapter 21, who was in the picture on Brendan Hughes's wall with him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 21, what was one important factor that soured the relationship between Brendan Hughes and Gerry Adams?

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

5. In Chapter 23, what was one of the main psychological difficulties for families of the disappeared in Northern Ireland?

6. In Chapter 15, what was life like for the McConville children that ended up at Kilcubbin?

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

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

9. In Chapter 24, what did three thieves break into the police complex at Castlereagh in 2002 looking for?

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

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