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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, how did Dolours Price describe her childhood from her adult perspective?

2. In what year did Jean McConville disappear?

3. The night Jean McConville disappeared, where did she send her daughter Helen on an errand?

4. In Chapter 8, what job did Gerry Adams once hold?

5. In Chapter 5, what did the McConvilles remember was written in graffiti across the family's door?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 6, what does Gerry Adams do for Brendan Hughes that deepens the two mens' bond?

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

3. In Chapter 2, how did Arthur Price pass down his allegiance to republicanism to his daughters?

4. In Chapter 12, who and what was involved in one of the IRA's boldest escapes from prison?

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

6. In Chapter 2, what did Dolours ask her Aunt Bridie as a child that adults would have found rude?

7. In Chapter 1, how was Archie McConville treated by the men who took his mother Jean away?

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

9. In Chapter 9, when did Michael McConville realize his mother was dead?

10. In Chapter 8, what was the HMP Maidstone's purpose?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 5, the Keefe describes the McConville children's recollection of their mother Jean's interactions with a British soldier one night in Divis Flats that they believe precipitated her abduction. Write an essay explaining what the McConville children say transpired and discuss some of the ambiguity and inconsistencies between their version of events and what the IRA members with knowledge of the McConville abduction revealed decades later about the IRA's reasons for killing McConville.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay analyzing why figures like Dolours Price and Brendan Hughes were so angry and frustrated with Gerry Adams' repeated denials that he was never a member of the IRA.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay explaining the origin of Keefe's title - Say Nothing - and what this phrase means in the context of The Troubles.

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