Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter 21, who was in the picture on Brendan Hughes's wall with him?
2. In Chapter 24, where was Jean McConville's body found?
3. In Chapter 15, what did the prison doctor bring to Hughes every morning while Hughes was on hunger strike?
4. In Chapter 20, who broke the IRA's code of silence in 2001?
5. In Chapter 15, which prisoner led the second hunger strike in Long Kesh?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. In Chapter 15, what tactics did the so-called Blanket Men use in Long Kesh in the 1970s?
3. In Chapter 22, how did Trevor Campbell recruit some of the IRA informants he recruited over the years?
4. 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?
5. In Chapter 24, what did three thieves break into the police complex at Castlereagh in 2002 looking for?
6. In Chapter 21, why was Brendan Hughes so upset over the provisions of the Good Friday Agreement?
7. In Chapter 14, what was one of Dolours's primary worries as she and Marian grew more ill on their hunger strike?
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 14, why were British leaders so worried about the public perception surrounding the imprisonment of the Price sisters as time went on?
10. In Chapter 14, how did the Price sisters' parents, Albert and Chrissie, respond to their daughters' hunger strike?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay explaining why Sinn Fein members and supporters of Gerry Adams rallied around him and closed ranks when he was eventually arrested in 2014 in connection to the abduction and murder of Jean McConville, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
Essay Topic 2
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.
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.
|
This section contains 909 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
