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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the police find in the trunk of the colonel's car?
(a) Heroin.
(b) A dead body.
(c) A bomb.
(d) Cocaine.

2. What does Escobar say he has never been convicted of in Colombia?
(a) Murder.
(b) Theft.
(c) Rape.
(d) A crime.

3. Who does Escobar claim Mr. Gaviria was murdered by?
(a) The military.
(b) Himself.
(c) The national police.
(d) The government.

4. Who does Mendoza ask to build the maximum security prison?
(a) The American government.
(b) The Bureau of Prisons.
(c) The guerilla.
(d) The Medellin people.

5. What does the author say is an essential part of Centra Spike's strategy?
(a) Microphones.
(b) Assassins.
(c) Secrecy.
(d) Protection.

6. What was the name of the newspaper Hector Giraldo advised?
(a) El Gringo.
(b) El Espectador.
(c) El Branca.
(d) El Bucara.

7. Where do the Centra Spike team live in the first month?
(a) Hotel rooms.
(b) A undown apartment.
(c) A mansion.
(d) A children's home.

8. Where does Escobar celebrate his first anniversary at La Catedral?
(a) A stripclub.
(b) A bar.
(c) A bowling alley.
(d) A nightclub.

9. What does Pablo tell a reporter he intends to study?
(a) Criminology.
(b) Journalism.
(c) Film.
(d) Sociology.

10. What does the author say shifting identities is like for the Centra Spike men?
(a) Trying on a new hat.
(b) Moving school.
(c) Moving house.
(d) Putting on a new pair of shoes.

11. What President Gaviria order General Pardo to do?
(a) Blow up the prison.
(b) Raid the prison.
(c) Kill Pablo.
(d) Fire upon the prison.

12. What is the name of the man Pablo murders on April 21st?
(a) Guillermo Cano.
(b) Martin Gonzales.
(c) Hector Giraldo.
(d) Luis Vera.

13. What do the guerillas like to throw in the railroad underpasses?
(a) Water.
(b) Mud.
(c) Grenades.
(d) Knives.

14. How does the author describe Pablo's cruelty?
(a) Sadistic.
(b) Sudden.
(c) Casual.
(d) Thorough.

15. Who does Pablo declare war on?
(a) The guerillas.
(b) The government.
(c) The masses.
(d) America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Gacha's teenage son?

2. What did Escobar often leave prison to attend?

3. What is the name of Gacha's hometown?

4. In which publication did Genearl Maza declare himself Pablo's personal enemy?

5. How does the situation change drastically in 1991?

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