Well, if you're talking about their attempts at apealling to Parliament, then they were not successful. When they resorted to larger and illegal ideas, like dumping the tea, they were much more successful. And since they won the war, I would say they were pretty successful.
When Ira wears a rubber band that fit loosely around his wrist, and that he uses to "snap" himself with it just hard enough to sting a little bit, he is using <em>aversion therapy</em>. This type of therapy expose the patient to a stimulus while at the same time, being subjected to some form of discomfort. This is done so that the patient begins to associate the discomfort with his/her own behavior, in order to decrease or completely interrupt such act. In the case of Ira, what aversion therapy would look for, is that Ira would start associating the discomfort of snapping the rubber band against his skin with talking without thinking. And by doing so, he would stop to talk without thinking.
Answer: LIGHT.
Explanation: AN undercover assignment involves one whereby an individual is engaged in spying or secret investigation of course for the purpose of obtaining information and data that would otherwise not be possible to get without this kind of method.
Light undercover usually requires an individual living a life that portrays the role being played for the purpose of intelligence and is usually short term as opposed to deep undercover that involves living in the same hostile environment as the people being investigated.