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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How is Diana distracted after her separation from Azucena?
2. What does Diana begin to do when she learns her kidnapping is not an isolated event?
3. Who founded the New Liberalism Party?
4. What major drug trafficker(s) accept Decree 3030?
5. What does everyone call the man who seems to lead the kidnapping?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do drug traffickers not like the New Liberation Party? How does New Liberation feel about drug trafficking?
2. Hernando Santos is seventy-eight years old and has had five bypass surgeries when Francisco is abducted. How does he react and what does this say about his character?
3. Marina is kidnapped three months prior to Maruja and Beatriz. Describe what Marina is going through by the time the other two women show up.
4. In detail, describe how Marina, Maruja, and Beatriz take in the fact that they remain hostages into the New Year.
5. Pacho has ideas of escaping when he feels there is no other alternative. How is this option possible? What makes Pacho believe he can escape all the guards?
6. The abductions are very well planned. Choose two abductions and describe in detail how the kidnappings occurred successfully.
7. The Priscos brothers are murdered. Who are they and how are they related to the kidnappings?
8. There are various families working on getting their relatives back. Some work together, others do not. Describe why some families have issues working together to find their families?
9. Describe the attempt to rescue Diana Turbay and its consequences.
10. Maruja and Beatriz are the last of the ten people taken hostage. What spurs the decision to abduct these last two when the kidnappers already have eight hostages?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
MedellÃn is known for its slums and high crime rates back in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Research crime rates in MedellÃn and your own local area. Compare and contrast the crime rates and how it affects the people who inhabit the areas.
Essay Topic 2
Decree 303 is passed days after Diana's death. The Extraditables get their extension on the capitulation policy. Where does the government stand at this point in time? Who has more control of the situation? Who has given up more at this stage? Who is winning the war between the Extraditables and the government?
Essay Topic 3
Some of the ten hostages are released before others. Write about what it is like for those that are released knowing others remain and what it is like for those that remain knowing others are released before them.
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