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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 15, which prisoner led the second hunger strike in Long Kesh?
2. In Chapter 22, who was one of the local IRA leaders who had argued that McConville should not be buried?
3. On what day of his hunger strike did Bobby Sands die?
4. In Chapter 23, what was one of the psychological stresses of family members of those who were disappeared that Keefe discusses?
5. In Chapter 21, who was in the picture on Brendan Hughes's wall with him?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 21, what did Mackers find was true of his interviews with many former IRA members?
2. In Chapter 16, who was the first hunger striker in Long Kesh to die and what was unusual about him?
3. In Chapter 20, what shortcoming of the Good Friday Agreement did the Belfast Project seem to correct?
4. In Chapter 16, what did Dolours Price say later in life about her relationship with food and eating?
5. In Chapter 15, what tactics did the so-called Blanket Men use in Long Kesh in the 1970s?
6. In Chapter 23, what was one of the main psychological difficulties for families of the disappeared in Northern Ireland?
7. In Chapter 17, what did Ian Paisley insinuate might have been the reason for Dolours Price's release from prison?
8. In Chapter 21, why was Brendan Hughes so upset over the provisions of the Good Friday Agreement?
9. In Chapter 22, how did Trevor Campbell recruit some of the IRA informants he recruited over the years?
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
Activists like Eamonn McCann and Bernadette Devlin approached the struggle against British authorities in Northern Ireland very differently than figures like Dolours Price and Brendan Hughes did. Write an essay comparing and contrasting the approach those like McCann and Devlin took and the approach Price and Hughes took during The Troubles, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay explaining how General Frank Kitson honed his approach to handling the violent outbreaks in Northern Ireland, and discuss which prior experiences contributed most significantly to his philosophies, mentality, and actions there.
Essay Topic 3
In Chapter 16, Keefe explains how official policies changed towards hunger striking and force-feeding between the time when the Price sisters undertook their hunger strike, in 1974, and the time when the men in Long Kesh prison undertook their hunger strike in 1981. Why did Dolours Price later wonder if she bore some responsibility for the hunger strikers' deaths who came after her? Write an essay explaining your answer.
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