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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maruja give herself to keep her sanity?
(a) One-on-one conversations with Beatriz to keep focus on reality.
(b) Two hours of solitude a day.
(c) A cigarette as soon as she wakes up to the gloomy mornings.
(d) A time for prayer to the Holy Infant once a day.

2. What becomes of the negotiations between the Notables and Escobar's negotiator for Santos and Turbay?
(a) A series of offers and counteroffers that arrives at nothing.
(b) A counter-offer that leaves families fearing for the hostages' lives.
(c) They never occur because Escobar calls them off.
(d) A series of offers that gives indications of possible release.

3. What does Escobar propose in one of his letters to his lawyer when in negotiations with the Notables?
(a) Escobar will surrender 100+ of his men if he is offered amnesty from extradition.
(b) Escobar's family is free of any indictments and offered security from enemies.
(c) Escobar is willing to give all goods and money with proof that no one is extradited.
(d) Escobar gets to have a personal prison camp in Envigado.

4. Maruja and Beatriz are soon joined by another hostage. When was this person kidnapped?
(a) The same day.
(b) Spring of 1990.
(c) The previous week.
(d) Three months earlier.

5. Who is the first president to allow extradition of Colombian nationals?
(a) Belisario Betancur.
(b) Julio César Turbay.
(c) Virgilio Barco.
(d) César Gaviria.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is different about Diana and her crew's location compared to the other hostages' hiding places?

2. Who is the first to know that Diana and Santos' kidnappings are the works of Escobar?

3. After the Notables negotiation failure, what news does Pardo give Villamizar to have something to look forward to?

4. What happens to Maruja's chauffeur?

5. How do the police know how to reach Beatriz's husband?

(see the answer key)

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