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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the basketball star who died after snorting cocaine?

2. What does the author say Pablo has the gift of doing when in people's company?

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

4. What is the name of the man who assassinates Gaitan?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Escobar tell the authorities when he surrenders in 1991?

2. What was La Violencia?

3. What is Centra Spike?

4. How did Gaitán come to prominence in 1948?

5. How does Pablo get a bomb aboard the commercial airline?

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

7. How does Martinez show he is coming to the end of his tether at the end of this section?

8. What does Pablo say is his personal opinion on cocaine?

9. How does Mendoza's life change?

10. How does Lara devastate the Colombian drug trade?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Escobar's upbringing contribute to his decision to become a criminal? In what way does the author suggest it was impossible at that time to be big and honest?

Essay Topic 2

How does Escobar escape the authorities for so long? Do you believe it was worth the time, money and lives it took to capture him?

Essay Topic 3

How does Escobar manipulate the different groups in Colombian society to maintain his power? How does Escobar deal with people that stand in his way? How does the way he deals with people contribute to his downfall?

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