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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What concerns Escobar when watching "God's Minute"?
(a) Father Herreros announces his retirement from the show.
(b) Father Herreros condemns the Medellín boys for killing police officers.
(c) Father Herreros apparently calls Escobar an unrepentant pornographer.
(d) Father Herreros condemns Escobar's followers for not being able to think for themselves.

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

3. How does Beatriz find out about Marina's death?
(a) Beatriz asks for Marina's phone number.
(b) Beatriz asks her guards in the car.
(c) Beatriz hears it on the evening news.
(d) Dr. Guerrero tells Beatriz he is happy she did not end up like Marina.

4. Escobar does not want a firing range at the prison because he believes it is what?
(a) An area that will inhibit his future plans to escape.
(b) A place where he will have to watch some of his guards pay their penalty.
(c) A practice range for the Elite Corps.
(d) A place where prisoners are the targets.

5. What does Alberto personally offer in exchange for Maruja's freedom?
(a) A personal prison in Itagüí.
(b) Himself.
(c) To support Escobar's family when he goes to prison.
(d) A personal talk with President Gaviria.

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

7. What does Maruja threaten to do if she does not receive a radio and television?
(a) To yell at the top of her lungs.
(b) Stop talking to the majordomo and Damaris.
(c) Stop taking her medicines.
(d) Stop eating.

8. What does Jonás tell Maruja and Beatriz before he leaves duty?
(a) Marina is dead.
(b) A rescue mission saved Richard.
(c) Diana Turbay is dead.
(d) He believes they will survive the situation.

9. What stops Maruja's thoughts of an escape through the courtyard?
(a) Two guards now take walks with her instead of just Damaris.
(b) She sees an armed guard right outside.
(c) The German shepherd is trained to bark at her.
(d) The man in black Marina once saw is real to Maruja.

10. How is Escobar located after he escapes?
(a) Escobar's son gives up his location.
(b) A phone call is traced between Escobar and his son.
(c) Escobar turns himself back in.
(d) Maza Marquez determination to find Escobar.

11. What does the government decide to turn into a prison for Escobar?
(a) An abandoned fort.
(b) An abandoned prison.
(c) An old rehabilitation center for drug addicts.
(d) A convent.

12. What is one thing that confirms Maruja's thoughts about Marina's ending?
(a) Majordomo offers to return the television when Beatriz leaves.
(b) When Beatriz leaves, the boss is more light-hearted in demeanor.
(c) They put Beatriz' hood on with the eyeholes forward instead of backwards.
(d) The guards are not sullen when Beatriz leaves like the day Marina left.

13. 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) Threats to buy into drug traffickers' bribes or be killed.
(c) Uphold the law and send family members to prison or quit the position.
(d) Let a drug trafficker free or allow his family to be killed.

14. What does Pacho want to take with him from his hostage hideout?
(a) A good luck futbol that the guards and he used to play with.
(b) A chess piece from one of his favorite guards.
(c) A magazine that he feels chronicles the hostage story very well.
(d) The chain that held him in his bed.

15. How does Escobar receive Father Herreros request to meet?
(a) He sends a communiqué saying he is honored but is unable to meet.
(b) He tells Villamizar to bring the Father to La Loma so they can meet.
(c) He tells don Fabio he is anxious but excited to meet the Father.
(d) Escobar accepts the Father's request at the Father's convenience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprise do the reporters and Pacho's family get when they see Pacho?

2. What message do the Santos' send Pacho in "El Tiempo" when they hear he will be released soon?

3. With whom is Escobar trying to make contact in order to negotiate?

4. What do the guards use to hide Pacho's face as they drive to his release point?

5. Who visits the prison to approve it before Escobar's surrender?

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