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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Que mas, caballero mean?

2. What is Centra Spike's specialty?

3. How does the government decide to try and keep Pablo in the prison?

4. What kind of bombs does the American hear?

5. Where does Escobar claim he worked as an adolescence?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the main themes of the story. In what way are these themes relevant to the period? How does the author use character and setting to express these themes?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the following and discuss how it affects the tone of the book and helps to express character and theme.

1. Setting

2. Point of view

3. Structure

4. Language

Essay Topic 3

Why does the Colombian and American governments go specifically after Escobar? What suggestions are there that Escobar's death will make no difference to the Colombian drug trade?

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