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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 21, why did Brendan Hughes tell Mackers he thought Jean McConville's murder had been justified?
(a) Hughes told Mackers that McConville had shot an IRA member.
(b) Hughes told Mackers McConville had been a Protestant married to a Catholic.
(c) Hughes told Mackers that McConville had vowed to destroy the IRA and the group had no choice but to protect itself.
(d) Hughes told Mackers McConville had been an informer.

2. In Chapter 18, who was the leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party?
(a) John McGinty.
(b) John Hume.
(c) Alec Reid.
(d) Martin McGuinness.

3. In Chapter 22, who was the Belfast cop working for the Special Branch of the RUC who recruited many informants?
(a) Trevor Campbell.
(b) Tucker Paul.
(c) Mark Rudson.
(d) John Mulvaney.

4. In Chapter 22, why was Brendan Hughes so convinced Jean McConville had been an informant?
(a) He insisted he had seen her in disguise on the streets of Belfast.
(b) He insisted she had a transmitter in her house used to communicate with British forces.
(c) He insisted he saw secret messages she had written.
(d) He insisted he had witnessed her meeting with British soldiers.

5. In Chapter 23, what did the McConville children think was a defining feature of their mother's clothing?
(a) She always had a needle and thread in her pocket.
(b) She always wore a nappy pin on her clothes.
(c) She always had spare change in her pocket.
(d) She always had a roll of tape in her pocket.

6. In Chapter 24, which of the McConville children went in first at the morgue to examine the clothing that had been found that authorities suspected might be Jean McConville's?
(a) Helen.
(b) Tucker.
(c) Archie.
(d) Michael.

7. In Chapter 24, who offered Brendan Hughes an apartment when he got out of prison?
(a) Dolours Price.
(b) Marian Price.
(c) Joe Fenton.
(d) Joe Lynskey.

8. In Chapter 14, which previous group of women did British authorities use force-feeding on?
(a) The Welsh Freedom Fighters.
(b) The Delhi suffragists.
(c) The Kenyan Sisters in Arms.
(d) The British suffragists.

9. In Chapter 19, when did the IRA declare a cease-fire?
(a) December 1989.
(b) May 1988.
(c) July 1992.
(d) August 1994.

10. In Chapter 20, which U.S. president took an interest in the peace process in Northern Ireland?
(a) George W. Bush.
(b) Ronald Reagan.
(c) Donald Trump.
(d) Bill Clinton.

11. In Chapter 23, what was one of the psychological stresses of family members of those who were disappeared that Keefe discusses?
(a) The churches would not allow them to have funerals for their loved ones.
(b) They had no way to file lawsuits against the perpetrators.
(c) They lived in fear that the same thing might happen to them.
(d) They had no bodies to bury and no closure.

12. In Chapter 23, where did the McConvilles gather on the basis of a tip from the IRA on where their mother Jean might be buried?
(a) Cobh in Cork.
(b) Cooley Peninsula.
(c) Glendalough.
(d) Dundalk lake.

13. In Chapter 21, what did Ricky O'Rawe tell Mackers about Gerry Adams and the hunger strike in the 1980s?
(a) Adams had wanted to participate in the hunger strike himself but the IRA leadership had forbidden it.
(b) Adams had wanted the Price sisters to resume their hunger strike because he thought they would get more attention because they were women.
(c) Adams ordered the hunger strikers not to take a deal offered by the British, resulting in the deaths of all the hunger strikers.
(d) Adams had told the hunger strikers in the 1980s to stop their strike, but they had refused.

14. In Chapter 25, where did Brendan Hughes fly with his brother after leaving prison?
(a) Cuba.
(b) Russia.
(c) Italy.
(d) France.

15. In Chapter 22, what was one of the Provisional IRA's execution squads called?
(a) The Nutting squad.
(b) The Coffin Squad.
(c) The Disappearance Squad.
(d) The Black Squad.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 23, what alibi did Gerry Adams falsely offer that he said absolved him from involvement in McConville's disappearance?

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

3. In Chapter 14, what artist's painting was stolen from a British museum in a bid to pressure the government to release the Price sisters?

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

5. In Chapter 14, which Irish republican poet and politician undertook a hunger strike in 1920 while being held in prison in England?

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