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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 22, what principal did the Belfast Cop and RUC Special Branch member live by in recruiting informants?
2. In Chapter 22, when did Dolours Price's marriage to Stephen Rea end?
3. In Chapter 17, how did Dolours Price react to Gerry Adams' decision to run for parliament at Westminster representing West Belfast?
4. In Chapter 20, which U.S. president took an interest in the peace process in Northern Ireland?
5. In Chapter 22, who was one of the local IRA leaders who had argued that McConville should not be buried?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 14, why were British leaders so worried about the public perception surrounding the imprisonment of the Price sisters as time went on?
2. In Chapter 18, what role did Father Alec Reid play in relation to the Provos?
3. In Chapter 21, what was one important factor that soured the relationship between Brendan Hughes and Gerry Adams?
4. In Chapter 20, what role did President Bill Clinton play in the peace process in Northern Ireland?
5. In Chapter 21, what did Mackers find was true of his interviews with many former IRA members?
6. In Chapter 20, how does Mackers end up being the lead interviewer for the Belfast Project at Boston College?
7. In Chapter 21, what stunning revelation does Ricky O'Rawe make to Mackers about Adams' part in directing the hunger strike in Long Kesh in the 1980s?
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 23, what was one of the main psychological difficulties for families of the disappeared in Northern Ireland?
10. In Chapter 16, what did Dolours Price say later in life about her relationship with food and eating?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What effect did the events of Bloody Sunday in January 1972 have on the Provisional IRA's activities and strategy? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to help support your arguments.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
In Chapter 16, Keefe explains how official policies changed towards hunger striking and force-feeding between the time when the Price sisters undertook their hunger strike, in 1974, and the time when the men in Long Kesh prison undertook their hunger strike in 1981. Why did Dolours Price later wonder if she bore some responsibility for the hunger strikers' deaths who came after her? Write an essay explaining your answer.
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