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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the Centra Spike team live in the first month?
(a) Hotel rooms.
(b) A children's home.
(c) A mansion.
(d) A undown apartment.

2. What does the author say is an essential part of Centra Spike's strategy?
(a) Protection.
(b) Assassins.
(c) Microphones.
(d) Secrecy.

3. What was the name of the newspaper Hector Giraldo advised?
(a) El Branca.
(b) El Bucara.
(c) El Espectador.
(d) El Gringo.

4. What does the author say shifting identities is like for the Centra Spike men?
(a) Moving school.
(b) Moving house.
(c) Trying on a new hat.
(d) Putting on a new pair of shoes.

5. What drug does Escobar claim is created in American labs?
(a) Crack.
(b) Heroin.
(c) MDMA.
(d) Ketamine.

6. What was Guillermo Cano's role on the El Espectador?
(a) Reporter.
(b) Cartoonist.
(c) Editor.
(d) Sub-editor.

7. Who does Pablo take hostage in the prison?
(a) Mendoza.
(b) Jacobey.
(c) Gaviria.
(d) Martinez.

8. Why does Mendoza find it impossible to build a maximum security prison?
(a) It is against the law.
(b) They don't have the funds.
(c) They don't have the materials.
(d) No one will take the contract.

9. Who owns the prison Escobar is put into?
(a) The American government.
(b) Escobar.
(c) The Colombian government.
(d) Martinez.

10. What is the name of Gacha's hometown?
(a) Bogota.
(b) Pancho.
(c) Escribiano.
(d) Pacho.

11. Who does Escobar claim Mr. Gaviria was murdered by?
(a) The government.
(b) Himself.
(c) The national police.
(d) The military.

12. What is Eduardo Mendoza's position in government?
(a) Primeminister.
(b) Home Secretary.
(c) Foreign Secretary.
(d) Vice Minister of Justice.

13. What does the author call a joke in chapter three?
(a) Escobar's trial.
(b) The election of Clinton.
(c) Escobar's imprisonment.
(d) The American drug police.

14. What does Pablo tell a reporter he intends to study?
(a) Criminology.
(b) Sociology.
(c) Journalism.
(d) Film.

15. What does Escobar claim he is rather than a criminal?
(a) A citizen of the world.
(b) A revolutionary.
(c) An outlaw.
(d) A politician.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which magazine estimated Gacha's fortune at $5 billion?

2. What kind of bombs does the American hear?

3. What does NSA stand for?

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

5. What did Escobar often leave prison to attend?

(see the answer keys)

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