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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Marina's condition when she is called by the guards to get ready to leave?
(a) Full of anticipation of release.
(b) Ready and waiting.
(c) Oblivious to the threat of being a hostage.
(d) Bedridden.

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

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

4. How are Pacho's guards compared to Maruja and Beatriz's guards?
(a) Pacho's guards are worse than the women's guards.
(b) Pacho's guards are much more informal.
(c) Pacho's guards are just as harsh.
(d) Pacho's guards are hardly present.

5. Why is Germán Montoya an important man?
(a) He had been Secretary General to the President.
(b) He is the man that ousted the Virgilio Barco government.
(c) He helps write the drug trafficking laws.
(d) He is responsible for the M-19 downfall.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first to be kidnapped in the string of related abductions?

2. If the drug traffickers turn themselves in, what law gives drug traffickers immunity from the punishment that most of them fear?

3. What reply is given when Maruja asks who the kidnappers are?

4. When is the first person freed?

5. What forms of communication do Maruja and Beatriz have from the outside world?

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