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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. Why does Margarita tell Forche she is safe from harm for the time being on page 276?
(a) Her husband is untouchable, so they will never harm her.
(b) The death squads think she is a nun, so they are mistakenly looking for a nun.
(c) The death squads think she is a man, so they are looking for a man.
(d) Her father will always protect her with his influence and money.

2. Why does Leonel take Forche to Ahuachapan?
(a) To eat the local cuisine.
(b) To hike up a famous mountain.
(c) To observe the human rights abuses at the prison there.
(d) To meet his grandmother.

3. What had Forche failed to do when she returned to El Salvador and things went badly wrong for her three times?
(a) Follow the rules Leonel had set out for her.
(b) Take her gun with her.
(c) Spoken Spanish as Leonel had instructed.
(d) Told Leonel where she was going.

4. What does the high-ranking official in the colonia tell Forche about her work on page 180?
(a) That she needs to go back to the U.S.A. and take up her professorship again.
(b) She is very young to be doing what she is doing.
(c) That she needs to write as much as she can about what she sees in El Salvador.
(d) That she needs to stop immediately.

5. Why did Salvadorans put rags and garbage on trees sometimes?
(a) To help people with directions.
(b) To mark secret dwellings.
(c) To embarrass the tree in front of other trees if it failed to produce fruit.
(d) To help the tree grow.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Leonel's story about the businessmen's negotiations with the peasants, what do the businessmen refuse to give the peasants?

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

4. What does Leonel tell her about driving to the poorer neighborhoods during the rainy season?

5. What does Forche see inside the prison that upsets her immensely?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Forche's experiences with Vietnam mostly consist of?

2. What happens to Forche that lands her in a Salvadoran hospital and produces hallucinations?

3. What does Forche buy in large amounts in the discount store Gemco to take back to El Salvador with her?

4. In San Salvador, what did a white handprint on a door or wall signify?

5. What does it mean to hang things on a tree in certain parts of El Salvador?

6. What does Leonel tell Forche about Colonel Chacon?

7. Why does Leonel reject the idea of Forche pretending she is a nun while in El Salvador?

8. Why do the women near Nabaj give Leonel their intricate weavings to take with him?

9. What did Forche come to think about Leonel during her many trips to El Salvador during the 1980s?

10. What recurring nightmare does Forche have as a child that she is reminded of again in El Salvador?

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