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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 6, how was Hughes gravely injured?
2. In Chapter 4, what was the nickname for the so-called Official IRA?
3. In Chapter 8, what was the new prison being built at an airfield outside of Belfast?
4. In Chapter 2, where were Dolours Price and other marchers ambushed and beaten by British and loyalist counter-protesters?
5. In Chapter 11, which airport was the Provo bombing team arrested at in March 1973 after carrying out the bombing campaign in London?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 11, what did Price and the other Provos do the night before setting off their car bombs in London in 1973?
2. In Chapter 2, what difficulties did Arthur and Jean McConville face because of their backgrounds?
3. In Chapter 10, why did Brendan Hughes feel guilty about the killings of Seamus Wright and Kevin McKee?
4. In Chapter 9, when did Michael McConville realize his mother was dead?
5. In Chapter 8, why did the IRA decided to kill Joe Lynskey?
6. In Chapter 8, what was the HMP Maidstone's purpose?
7. In Chapter 2, how did Arthur Price pass down his allegiance to republicanism to his daughters?
8. In Chapter 2, what did Dolours ask her Aunt Bridie as a child that adults would have found rude?
9. In Chapter 12, how did Dolours and Marian Price react to their conviction in court in London in 1973?
10. In Chapter 1, how was Archie McConville treated by the men who took his mother Jean away?
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 analyzing some of the reasons the Price sisters - Dolours and Marian - received so much media attention after their role in the Provisional IRA's London bombing campaign in 1973, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
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