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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the police find in the trunk of the colonel's car?
(a) Cocaine.
(b) Heroin.
(c) A dead body.
(d) A bomb.

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

3. What famous figure does Bowden compare Pablo's mustache to?
(a) Hitler.
(b) Stalin.
(c) Mussolini.
(d) Castro.

4. What was the name of the war that began in 1899?
(a) The War of a Thousand Days.
(b) The Hundred Year War.
(c) The War of a Million Deaths.
(d) The War of Independence.

5. Whose problem does Martinez say cocaine is?
(a) North America's.
(b) Colombia's.
(c) Brazil's.
(d) Europe's.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Gacha have on the band of his Panama hat?

3. Where does Escobar celebrate his first anniversary at La Catedral?

4. Where had Pablo's mother been visiting on the day of his murder?

5. Whose pursuit does the author say has cut Pablo off from his wealth?

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