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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What problem does the law face if they capture a drug trafficking terrorist?
(a) Retaliation from the cartel.
(b) Inability to extradite the suspect.
(c) Lack of evidence to convict.
(d) Public safety during the attempts to physically capture any of the terrorists.

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

3. How does law enforcement identify the body of the first hostage executed?
(a) A tattoo.
(b) Hair similarities.
(c) Dental records.
(d) The up market clothes and well-groomed nails.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Marina think she will not leave alive?

2. What is Marina's condition when she is called by the guards to get ready to leave?

3. Why is Beatriz a target?

4. When is the first person freed?

5. What does Maruja use to help ease her anxiety during the car ride to the hiding place?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Decree 303, and what spurs its placement?

2. When Pacho learns he is about to be released, he looks over all his notes and tears up all but three of them. He also saves the letters he wrote to his family. Why does he tear all his works up?

3. Escobar promises to release Maruja and Pacho. There are various sources, but Villamizar is ecstatic. One reporter notes with surprise that Alberto can be so trusting. What makes this promise from Escobar believable despite previous promises?

4. When the President is unable to give the families what they ask for to find their families, some of them turn to the Notables. Who are the Notables and what is their role during the abductions?

5. Why do the kidnappers choose hostages who are media and government related?

6. Diana Turbay is one of the main hostages from the media group of six. Describe her background that shows her history and character.

7. When the hostage situation seems at a standstill and all avenues at a dead end, Father García Herreros steps into the picture. What spurs Father Herreros to help end the hostage situation?

8. Beatriz is abducted my mistake. Why does she stay, and what does this say about her character?

9. Alberto Villamizar begins to have communiqués with Escobar when Parra is no longer in the picture as mediator. How do these communiqués begin and end? What results come from them?

10. When the Extraditables kill Marina and leave her, the public does not even know for a week. Eventually the Extraditables confirm her murder. Why do the Extraditables confirm Marina's killing when public uncertainty comes up?

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