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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 4, where did the Prices live in Belfast?

2. In Chapter 10, where had Frank Kitson served for the British army before coming to Belfast?

3. Which Protestant minister in Northern Ireland does Keefe describe as "rabid" in Chapter 2?

4. In Chapter 2, how did Dolours Price describe her childhood from her adult perspective?

5. In Chapter 9, what did a man bring to the door of the McConville's flat about a week after Jean disappeared?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 11, what was Dolours Price's role in the plan to bring the Provisional IRA's bombing campaign directly to London?

2. In Chapter 12, how did Brendan Hughes escape from Long Kesh prison?

3. In Chapter 2, what difficulties did Arthur and Jean McConville face because of their backgrounds?

4. In Chapter 12, how did Dolours and Marian Price react to their conviction in court in London in 1973?

5. In Chapter 10, why did Brendan Hughes feel guilty about the killings of Seamus Wright and Kevin McKee?

6. In Chapter 9, what happened to the McConville children after their mother Jean disappeared?

7. In Chapter 2, how did Arthur Price pass down his allegiance to republicanism to his daughters?

8. In Chapter 4, why is Eamonn McCann dismayed when he figures out his friend Dolours Price has joined the Provos?

9. In Chapter 6, what does Gerry Adams do for Brendan Hughes that deepens the two mens' bond?

10. In Chapter 11, what did Price and the other Provos do the night before setting off their car bombs in London in 1973?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay analyzing the McConville children's feelings about the handling of their mother's abduction and murder both on the part of the British authorities and the IRA, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers. Do the McConvilles feel that they saw justice for what was done to their mother Jean?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay explaining some of the legal and ethical problems Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre encountered in the creation and archiving of their Belfast Project oral history at Boston College.

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.

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