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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What complaints do the women in the drug traffickers' family have?
(a) Unfair punishments for the men in their lives.
(b) Unpredictable behavior seen in Escobar.
(c) Police brutality.
(d) Fear for their lives if they talk with Nydia.

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

3. Who becomes a strong supporter for Hernando Santos when his son, Francisco Santos, is abducted?
(a) His brother.
(b) His other sons.
(c) His wife.
(d) His daughter-in-law.

4. How does Marina spend her New Year's Eve?
(a) She dances all night without music.
(b) Laughing and joking with the guards.
(c) Quietly in the corner.
(d) She drinks and tries drugs with the guards.

5. Where is the first hiding place located?
(a) El Calle.
(b) La Tercera.
(c) La Calera.
(d) La Castellanos.

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

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

8. The feelings of the kidnappers during the abduction can be described as __________.
(a) Rigid.
(b) Confident.
(c) Calm.
(d) Nervy.

9. What does Diana begin to do when she learns her kidnapping is not an isolated event?
(a) She starts a diary.
(b) She gives up hope.
(c) She tries to get more personal with the head of the household.
(d) She gives secret messages to the random women that visit the house.

10. What major drug trafficker(s) accept Decree 3030?
(a) Priscos brothers.
(b) Don Pacho.
(c) Nieves brothers.
(d) The Ochoa brothers.

11. Who is allowed to visit Marina and Beatriz in January?
(a) Alberto Villamizar.
(b) Rafael Pardo.
(c) A doctor.
(d) Guido Parra.

12. How does Diana die?
(a) The kidnappers kill her before they flee during the raid.
(b) She is shot and left behind.
(c) An Elite Corps member shoots her after mistaking her as one of Escobar's men.
(d) From a random gunshot wound to her waist.

13. From what does Marina suffer by the time Maruja and Beatriz meet her?
(a) Amnesia.
(b) Hearing voices.
(c) Anorexia.
(d) Hallucinations.

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

15. Who remains after the series of hostage releases in late 1990?
(a) Marina, Maruja, Beatriz and Francisco Santos.
(b) Diana, Maruja, Marina, Beatriz, Juan, and Richard.
(c) Diana, Richard, Marina, Maruja, Hero and Francisco.
(d) Diana, Marina, Maruja, Beatriz, Richard, and Francisco Santos.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Orlando's wife and Richard's mother worry their relatives will be the first to die?

2. Who is the only one to not hide the pessimism of the kidnappings of Maruja and Beatriz?

3. For whom does Maruja work?

4. Why is Germán Montoya an important man?

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

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