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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 20, who was the lead interviewer for the Belfast Project?
2. In Chapter 14, what was the vernacular for a prison guard?
3. In Chapter 23, what alibi did Gerry Adams falsely offer that he said absolved him from involvement in McConville's disappearance?
4. In Chapter 21, how had Sean McKenna reacted to Brendan Hughes when McKenna ran into Hughes in Dundalk?
5. In Chapter 23, what did the McConville children think was a defining feature of their mother's clothing?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 17, what did Ian Paisley insinuate might have been the reason for Dolours Price's release from prison?
2. In Chapter 15, what was life like for the McConville children that ended up at Kilcubbin?
3. In Chapter 18, what role did Father Alec Reid play in relation to the Provos?
4. In Chapter 20, what role did President Bill Clinton play in the peace process in Northern Ireland?
5. In Chapter 23, what jarring situation did Michael McConville, one of Jean's sons, find himself in as an adult one day regarding his mother's abduction?
6. In Chapter 21, what was one important factor that soured the relationship between Brendan Hughes and Gerry Adams?
7. In Chapter 14, how did the Price sisters' parents, Albert and Chrissie, respond to their daughters' hunger strike?
8. 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?
9. In Chapter 16, who was the first hunger striker in Long Kesh to die and what was unusual about him?
10. In Chapter 23, what was one of the main psychological difficulties for families of the disappeared in Northern Ireland?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What were some of the most significant reasons behind the split between the so-called "Old IRA," or the "Stickies," and the Provisional IRA, or the "Provos?" Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay explaining how the British government chose to deal with Irish prisoners on hunger strike during The Troubles, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
Essay Topic 3
Activists like Eamonn McCann and Bernadette Devlin approached the struggle against British authorities in Northern Ireland very differently than figures like Dolours Price and Brendan Hughes did. Write an essay comparing and contrasting the approach those like McCann and Devlin took and the approach Price and Hughes took during The Troubles, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
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