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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 8, where did Gerry Adams and others meet with British representatives in the summer of 1972?
2. In Chapter 13, what cover did Brendan Hughes use after escaping from prison to try to evade the authorities?
3. Which of Jean McConville's children accompanied her to the waiting car with the people who abducted her from her flat?
4. In Chapter 4, where did the Prices live in Belfast?
5. In Chapter 5, what ancient mode of humiliation were women in Belfast seen consorting with a British soldier subjected to?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 13, how did Brendan Hughes evade detection and capture for a time after his escape from prison?
2. In Chapter 9, when did Michael McConville realize his mother was dead?
3. In Chapter 10, why did Brendan Hughes feel guilty about the killings of Seamus Wright and Kevin McKee?
4. In Chapter 2, what did Dolours ask her Aunt Bridie as a child that adults would have found rude?
5. In Chapter 1, how was Archie McConville treated by the men who took his mother Jean away?
6. In Chapter 8, what tactics and methods did the Provisional IRA employ when they disappeared someone?
7. In Chapter 12, how did Dolours and Marian Price react to their conviction in court in London in 1973?
8. In Chapter 11, why did a British prosecutor suggest was evidence that the Provisional IRA did intend to kill people with its 1973 London bombings?
9. In Chapter 9, what happened to the McConville children after their mother Jean disappeared?
10. In Chapter 4, why is Eamonn McCann dismayed when he figures out his friend Dolours Price has joined the Provos?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay explaining some of the legal and ethical problems Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre encountered in the creation and archiving of their Belfast Project oral history at Boston College.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
In Chapter 3, Keefe describes some of the hardships Jean McConville and her family faced because of Jean's background - namely, that she was born a Protestant and had converted to Catholicism upon marrying her Catholic husband, Arthur. Write an essay analyzing how some of the pragmatic and daily difficulties Jean faced because of her background contributed to her lifelong struggles living in Northern Ireland.
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