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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Forche know the song Madre was about?
(a) The mining of the waters of Haiphong.
(b) Losing one's mother.
(c) Having a good nanny.
(d) Eating good food.

2. Why does Leonel tell Forche not to pretend she is a nun?
(a) She is not well-versed enough with Catholicism to pretend to be a nun.
(b) She does not look like a nun.
(c) There are no nuns in El Salvador.
(d) She could be found out, and the real nuns who had helped her could get in trouble.

3. When do the death squads do their work?
(a) Any time of day or night.
(b) At night.
(c) Early afternoon.
(d) Early morning.

4. What does the religious figure with Forche say they all must do for the person whose abduction they witnessed?
(a) Pray for him.
(b) Call his family.
(c) Track him.
(d) Take a photograph of the van that he was forced into.

5. What does Forche criticize Leonel for regarding the way he runs his farm?
(a) She says he should not be so easy on his workers.
(b) She says he should just give the land to the laborers.
(c) She says he should provide his workers with better health care.
(d) She says he should charge more for his coffee.

6. At what discount store does Forche buy supplies to take to El Salvador with her?
(a) K-Mart.
(b) Gemco.
(c) Wolworth's.
(d) Costco.

7. Why does Leonel want to take Forche to Chichi?
(a) So she can see market day.
(b) So she can meet the president there.
(c) So she can learn how to do Mayan weaving.
(d) So she can meet a good friend of his.

8. Where do Forche and Leonel cross into Guatemala?
(a) At Las Chinamas.
(b) At the port of Hilala.
(c) At Rio Canal.
(d) At Guadalahara.

9. What does Leonel tell Forche about the textiles in Guatemala?
(a) They are like stories where every figure speaks.
(b) They are coded communications to help with the revolution.
(c) The colors are made from special dyes.
(d) They are religiously significant.

10. What does Forche tell Leonel that Bud, Claribel's husband, told her about him?
(a) That Leonel is a mercenary.
(b) That Leonel is a con man.
(c) That Leonel works for the CIA.
(d) That Leonel is a priest.

11. What particular drug does Forche buy in bulk to take to El Salvador?
(a) Mifepristone.
(b) Correctol.
(c) Naxolone.
(d) Immodium.

12. What does the fire in the barrio remind Forche about?
(a) A recurring nightmare she had as a child of ashes and people who were burned.
(b) A fire that burned down her dormitory in college.
(c) A fire that burned down her house as a child.
(d) A fire that killed her friend as a child.

13. What did Forche talk to the American ambassador to El Salvador about that was of no consequence but was just small talk?
(a) She asked him about his aquarium.
(b) They talked about cars.
(c) They talked about Michigan, where they both grew up.
(d) She asked him about his cat.

14. What does the American ambassador to El Salvador tell Forche when she asks him about Ronald Richardson?
(a) He says he is working very hard to figure out the case.
(b) He says he considers Richardson's disappearance unsolvable.
(c) He says he has put his best investigator on the case.
(d) He says he has already solved the case.

15. Who does Leonel have a poster of in his own house that Forche recognizes?
(a) Bob Marley.
(b) Fidel Castro.
(c) Bob Dylan.
(d) Che Guevara.

Short Answer Questions

1. What helps Margarita and Forche get away when they are chased by car on page 279?

2. What is another name for the Santa Ana winds?

3. Who does Leonel tell Forche are some of the prisoners at Ahuachapan?

4. What does the high-ranking official in the colonia tell Forche about her work on page 180?

5. How old was Leonel at the time Forche was making all her trips back and forth to El Salvador?

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