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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue, Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author call the mission the colonel has been given?
(a) A suicide mission.
(b) A death mission.
(c) A people's mission.
(d) Mission impossible.

2. What did Escobar and his gang use to steal and sell in their early days?
(a) Posters.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Headstones.
(d) Computers.

3. What is Gaitan's slogan?
(a) I am not a man, I am a people.
(b) I believe in change.
(c) I am at one with my own.
(d) I see nothing but the future.

4. What did Maria claim the police refused to give her while in custody?
(a) A glass of water.
(b) A bottle of milk.
(c) A cigarette.
(d) Her telephone call.

5. What does Flaco mean in Spanish?
(a) Addict.
(b) Lover.
(c) Skinny.
(d) Hotty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What famous figure does Bowden compare Pablo's mustache to?

2. In what state had Lara arranged with the US embassy to live in with her family?

3. What is Pablo's pet name for his wife?

4. How does Pablo force the judge off his case?

5. What does the American say Bogota reminds him of?

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