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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What marks Gaitan out as an outsider?
(a) His mixed blood.
(b) His deformity.
(c) His war wounds.
(d) His criminal past.

2. What does the Colonel fear the planes will hit when they fly low over the army base?
(a) Towers.
(b) Satellite dishes.
(c) Helicopters.
(d) Electric wires.

3. What is the name of the army's counterterroism unit?
(a) SAS.
(b) The Seals.
(c) CIA.
(d) Delta Force.

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

5. What did people begin referring to Pablo as after he killed the Conservative landowner?
(a) El Doctor.
(b) Mr. Death.
(c) El Dentist.
(d) The Debt Collector.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Pablo's favorite singer?

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

3. What does the author say stalks Colombia like a biblical plague?

4. What does the author say Pablo lacked to create a real manifesto?

5. Where is the car bomb discovered that is meant for the Colonel and his family?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sheehan want to pull American military out of Colombia?

2. What was the US Executive Order 12333?

3. How does Escobar try to win over Martinez?

4. In what does Pablo express an obsession for education?

5. Describe the scenes after the bookstore bombing.

6. How did Gacha die?

7. Why can't Mendoza arrange for a high security wall to be built around Escobar's prison?

8. How did Escobar gain respect in the drug world?

9. In what way could the Escobars be described as middle class?

10. What does Escobar's wife tell the TV after the police capture her and her son in Argentina?

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