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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The hostages' living conditions are __________.
(a) Bare and sterile.
(b) Abysmal.
(c) Meticulously clean.
(d) Filled with cockroaches and rats.

2. What does the guard refer to Diana as being?
(a) The least worthy.
(b) Don Pacho's favorite.
(c) Merchandise.
(d) Garbage.

3. Why do the kidnappers take Maruja and Beatriz to a second hiding place?
(a) To confuse the women further.
(b) Beatriz figures out their location when she looks out a bathroom window.
(c) Maruja whispers too loudly that she knows where they may be.
(d) The police learn the kidnappers' escape route, so they must leave.

4. What stops Maruja's thoughts of an escape through the courtyard?
(a) The German shepherd is trained to bark at her.
(b) She sees an armed guard right outside.
(c) The man in black Marina once saw is real to Maruja.
(d) Two guards now take walks with her instead of just Damaris.

5. What negotiation does Escobar initiate on his own?
(a) He asks President Gaviria for amnesty for Maruja's and Pacho's release.
(b) He requests that Hernando publish two texts in exchange for Pacho.
(c) He asks don Fabio to speak on his behalf in exchange for money to care for the Ochoa women.
(d) He wants Villamizar to represent him as his negotiator with the government in exchange for Maruja's release.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state does Villamizar find Hernando Santos and former president Turbay when he visits them for the first time after Maruja's kidnapping?

2. What major drug trafficker(s) accept Decree 3030?

3. How does Nydia achieve contact with Escobar?

4. When are Maruja and Beatriz kidnapped?

5. From what illness does Maruja suffer a month after her abduction?

(see the answer key)

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