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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Escobar do to prove his war with Marquez is over?
(a) Escobar sends information about where his explosives are kept.
(b) Escobar orders the boys of Medellín to stop killing the police.
(c) Escobar hands over information regarding his drug trafficking routes.
(d) Escobar sends a public communiqué apologizing to Maza Marquez.

2. How do Escobar's personal guards view Father Herreros?
(a) They are suspicious of his involvement.
(b) They think he is a madman.
(c) They are split in their opinion of him.
(d) They respect him.

3. What dilemma do judges often face in Medellín?
(a) Comply with a law that allows drug traffickers free or overstep their power and imprison them.
(b) Uphold the law and send family members to prison or quit the position.
(c) Threats to buy into drug traffickers' bribes or be killed.
(d) Let a drug trafficker free or allow his family to be killed.

4. What is the reason for the numerous checkpoints seen around the city as Beatriz is driven to her release point?
(a) The Cali cartel bombs the area to create confusion for the Extraditables.
(b) Bombings by urban guerrillas.
(c) Elite Corps efforts to find the abductors.
(d) The Extraditables bombed numerous police stations.

5. What do Gloria Pachon and Villamizar ask of the police?
(a) A month's truce to allow contact with Escobar.
(b) For protection when they go see Escobar.
(c) To press on the Medellín slums even harder to send a message to Escobar.
(d) An internal investigation to satisfy Escobar.

6. What opportunity for possible freedom arises when Gorilla is having chest pains?
(a) The second guard sends Beatriz to the pharmacy for medicine.
(b) The second guard asks for the women's help to bring Gorilla to the hospital.
(c) Gorilla asks Maruja to find the majordomo for help.
(d) Maruja and Beatrix have access to submachine guns.

7. What happens that gives Pacho an opportunity to escape?
(a) A guard unknowingly drops a knife under Pacho's bed.
(b) Pacho sees a weak spot in the bathroom window that he believes he can break through.
(c) All the guards leave him to watch a futbol championship game.
(d) A night guard passes out before he can chain Pacho to the bed.

8. What does "Doctor" suggest Maruja do when they talk?
(a) Take walks to clear her mind.
(b) Write Escobar a letter.
(c) Write Alberto Villamizar a letter.
(d) Ask the majordomo nicely for better treatment.

9. With whom is Escobar trying to make contact in order to negotiate?
(a) The Monkey.
(b) Alberto Villamizar.
(c) Don Fabio.
(d) The government.

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

11. What stops Pacho from considering suicide?
(a) A picture of his family in the paper.
(b) A deep conversation with one of the guards.
(c) Rereading a letter he wrote to his wife while imprisoned.
(d) A column in "El Tiempo" specifically telling Pacho not to think about it.

12. Father Herreros offers additional help to President Gaviria in regards to what other Colombian issue?
(a) Picking up the slums of Medellín and other cities.
(b) Manuel Perez from the Army of National Liberation (ELN).
(c) The Cali drug cartel.
(d) Urban guerrillas from Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

13. What mysteriously arrives at Villamizar's door after life has seemingly returned to normal?
(a) Maruja's purse.
(b) Maruja's rings.
(c) A letter from Escobar's mother.
(d) A letter from Escobar.

14. What is Escobar's main negotiation issue with only Maruja and Pacho left as hostages?
(a) Safety of his family when he surrenders.
(b) A prison he is willing to surrender to.
(c) Security of his money while he is imprisoned.
(d) The safety of the Medellín boys in the slums.

15. What city does Escobar threaten to dynamite?
(a) Cartagena.
(b) Bogotá.
(c) Cali.
(d) Manizales.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the nicer guards ask of Maruja when she leaves?

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

3. What concerns Escobar when watching "God's Minute"?

4. Where do the police believe Maruja is located?

5. Why does Villamizar want to meet Escobar?

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