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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what game does Diana compare the negotiations?
(a) Risk.
(b) Checkers.
(c) Chess.
(d) Battleship.

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

3. After the Notables negotiation failure, what news does Pardo give Villamizar to have something to look forward to?
(a) Pardo's department receives a minicassette from Maruja.
(b) Nydia has leads on Escobar is location.
(c) Another decree is being worked on to amend the first rejected one.
(d) President Gaviria is putting more forces to work to help negotiate with Parra.

4. How do the guards discover that it is Maruja's birthday?
(a) During a television show by her children.
(b) Beatriz and Marina sing "Happy Birthday" to Maruja.
(c) From one of Maruja's optimistic games.
(d) Maruja makes a fuss about it.

5. What reply is given when Maruja asks who the kidnappers are?
(a) New Liberalism.
(b) M-19.
(c) FOCINE.
(d) Virgilio Barco.

6. The Santos family learns Pacho is in the northern part of Bogota. How do they know this?
(a) Pacho reads a headline from a local edition newspaper on a minicassette to prove he's alive.
(b) Guido Parra slips during a negotiation with the Notables.
(c) Pacho talks of clues in a minicassette sent to the family to prove he's alive.
(d) Hernando's friend recognizes Pacho's voice coming from an abandoned house.

7. What is Juan Vitto prescribed when a doctor visits?
(a) Tranquilizers.
(b) Over the counter ibuprofen.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) More reading.

8. What does Marina see the in the laundry area during her nightly walks with Monk?
(a) The German Shepherd with a devilish grin on her.
(b) A ghost.
(c) A man in black watching her.
(d) Monk's mask as a skull.

9. What makes Marina think she will not leave alive?
(a) The guards treat her the worst.
(b) Marina frustrates the women as well as the guards.
(c) The guards did not hide their faces before Maruja and Beatriz arrived.
(d) The boss seems to detest her whenever he visits.

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

11. What is most surprising about Santos' kidnapping?
(a) Everyone sees, but no one says a word due to fear.
(b) It is done in the middle of his workplace.
(c) It is done in the middle of a busy street.
(d) It succeeds despite the number of cops at the scene.

12. What does the letter sent from the Extraditables to Turbay and Santos threaten if they do not receive what they want?
(a) The killings of their children.
(b) Assassination of the president.
(c) Bombings and assassinations.
(d) More abductions.

13. In what state does Villamizar find Hernando Santos and former president Turbay when he visits them for the first time after Maruja's kidnapping?
(a) Santos and Turbay believe their children are already dead.
(b) Santos and Turbay are still in a fervor to find their children.
(c) Santos and Turbay turn to prayer as their only hope.
(d) Santos and Turbay are discouraged.

14. How is the first hostage executed by the terrorists?
(a) Numerous bullets throughout the trunk of the body.
(b) One cut to the throat.
(c) Hung in public.
(d) Bullets to the head.

15. Who begins a personal campaign to contact Escobar?
(a) Angelina Ochoa.
(b) Martha Nieves.
(c) Alexandra.
(d) Nydia Quintero.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How is Diana distracted after her separation from Azucena?

3. How do the Prisco brothers play a role in the gang life?

4. Who does Villamizar call for help?

5. Who is the first person freed?

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