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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 8, what was an unlicensed drinking club in Belfast called?
(a) A snug.
(b) A blogger.
(c) A nootch.
(d) A shebeen.

2. In Chapter 4, what was one of the first jobs Dolours Price did when she joined the IRA?
(a) Cleaned bullets with steel wool.
(b) Killed someone.
(c) Buried shrapnel from bombs in her garden.
(d) Ferried food across the border to political prisoners.

3. In Chapter 19, who did Brendan Hughes travel to New York to meet?
(a) People in the U.S. Republican Party.
(b) Representatives from the Irish Northern Aid Committee, or Noraid.
(c) His family members who had emigrated decades earlier.
(d) People in the U.S. Democratic Party.

4. In Chapter 10, what laundry company did the Provos ambush in 1972?
(a) Four Square Laundry.
(b) Shining Star.
(c) The Clean Machine.
(d) The Basket.

5. In Chapter 22, what principal did the Belfast Cop and RUC Special Branch member live by in recruiting informants?
(a) You need to get people to trust you in order to turn on their friends.
(b) Money is the best motivator.
(c) People will turn on their own family members only if they believe in what they are doing.
(d) Everyone is recruitable.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 27, which Irish Times reporter interviewed Dolours Price in 2011?

2. In Chapter 8, who did Hughes determine shot the IRA man whose shooting he was investigating?

3. In Chapter 14, what was the vernacular for a prison guard?

4. In what year did Jean McConville disappear?

5. In Chapter 22, why did Mackers tell Price to rethink her choice to talk on tape about her role in McConville's disappearance?

(see the answer key)

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