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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Maruja's chauffeur?
(a) He is temporarily knocked out with chloroform.
(b) He is hit unconscious.
(c) He is shot to death.
(d) He is thrown out of the car and left behind.

2. How do the guards react to knowing it is Maruja's birthday?
(a) They give her extra lentils for lunch.
(b) They do not acknowledge it.
(c) They tell Maruja to stop whining about it.
(d) They are sympathetic.

3. How does Luis Guillermo Pérez, Marina's son, confirm her identity?
(a) By her eyes.
(b) By her teeth.
(c) By her hands.
(d) By her well-known high cheekbones.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After Gaviria's response to the deaths, how do the Extraditables answer?

2. From what does Marina suffer by the time Maruja and Beatriz meet her?

3. What advice does the German journalist give Nydia?

4. What shocks Beatriz and Maruja the night Beatriz leaves?

5. What is one thing that confirms Maruja's thoughts about Marina's ending?

(see the answer key)

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