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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, which journalist was involved in setting up the Belfast Project?

2. In Chapter 14, whose funeral did Marian and Dolours petition for compassionate leave from prison in order to attend?

3. In Chapter 18, which priest sometimes acted as a messenger for the IRA, while not condoning the group's violent activities?

4. In Chapter 24, when did three thieves break into the Castlereagh complex looking for information on the identities of IRA informants?

5. In Chapter 17, who did Dolours Price marry in 1983?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 17, what are some of the difficulties Dolours Price and Stephen Rea encountered in their marriage?

2. In Chapter 14, how did the Price sisters' parents, Albert and Chrissie, respond to their daughters' hunger strike?

3. In Chapter 15, what tactics did the so-called Blanket Men use in Long Kesh in the 1970s?

4. In Chapter 20, how does Mackers end up being the lead interviewer for the Belfast Project at Boston College?

5. In Chapter 16, what did Dolours Price say later in life about her relationship with food and eating?

6. 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?

7. In Chapter 20, what role did President Bill Clinton play in the peace process in Northern Ireland?

8. In Chapter 21, what did Mackers find was true of his interviews with many former IRA members?

9. In Chapter 16, who was the first hunger striker in Long Kesh to die and what was unusual about him?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay explaining why the IRA's killings of Seamus Wright and Kevin McKee troubled Brendan Hughes so greatly, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusion.

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 2, Keefe reveals that Dolours Price once described her childhood as an indoctrination. Write an essay explaining what Price meant by this, citing specific examples and references to the text to support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay analyzing the events, attitudes, and individual actions that led to the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

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