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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Chapters 26 - 30).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 21, what was one reason that Brendan Hughes and Gerry Adams were no longer friends?
(a) Adams had given the British information that had led to Hughes's arrest.
(b) Adams kept publicly denying his involvement with and membership in the IRA.
(c) Adams had publicly blamed Hughes for the deaths that had happened on the hunger strike in the 1980s.
(d) Adams had written a book that was critical of Hughes.

2. In Chapter 22, who was one of Mackers's closest friends from the IRA?
(a) Gerry Adams.
(b) Kevin McKee.
(c) Brian Twomey.
(d) Dolours Price.

3. In Chapter 28, what new epithet related to the Belfast Project began appearing around Belfast?
(a) Boston College Wrecks.
(b) Boston College Spies.
(c) Boston College Narks.
(d) Boston College Touts.

4. In Chapter 12, how did Brendan Hughes escape from Long Kesh?
(a) He wore a prison guard's clothes.
(b) He wore nun's clothes.
(c) He hid inside a mattress and left in a garbage truck.
(d) He had a helicopter come for him in the prison yard.

5. In Chapter 15, what social club did Gerry Adams' father help to found?
(a) The Gaelic Football Club.
(b) The Felons Club.
(c) The Republican Club.
(d) The Cracked Cup Club.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 27, why did Dolours Price say she and other volunteers were called back to Dundalk about five days after she dropped off McConville there?

2. In Chapter 24, where was Jean McConville's body found?

3. In Chapter 22, what was one of the Provisional IRA's execution squads called?

4. In Chapter 15, what did the prison doctor bring to Hughes every morning while Hughes was on hunger strike?

5. In Chapter 2, which aunt of Dolours Price's did she sometimes help look after?

(see the answer key)

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