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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Romagoza's daughter?
(a) Maria.
(b) Gabriela.
(c) Driana.
(d) Daniela.

2. When Romagoza was taken to San Salvador and further tortured, where was he shot?
(a) Left forearm.
(b) Left thiigh.
(c) Right forearm.
(d) Right thigh.

3. Where was Ernesto (Satan) Deras's battalion in El Salvador trained by Americans?
(a) Fort Rucker.
(b) Fort Bragg.
(c) Fort Benning.
(d) Fort Riley.

4. How many civilians were killed by El Savadoran State security force in 1980?
(a) 111.
(b) 159.
(c) 320.
(d) 281.

5. When did a group of El Salvadorans attempt to reach the U.S. through the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument?
(a) August 23, 1980.
(b) July 4, 1980.
(c) June 11, 1980.
(d) September 15, 1980.

6. What was the minimum wage in Mexico City in the early 1970s?
(a) $4 a day.
(b) $3 a day.
(c) $6 a day.
(d) $5 a day.

7. When was Romero killed?
(a) January 11, 1980.
(b) February 23, 1980.
(c) April 19, 1980.
(d) March 24, 1980.

8. Before the Refugee Act was passed in March of 1980, roughly how many asylum seekers arrived in the U.S. yearly?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 2,500.
(c) 1,500.
(d) 2,000.

9. By the early 1990s, how many gang-related killings made up all the homicides in Los Angeles County?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 1/3.
(c) 1/4.
(d) 2/3.

10. What cities declared in March 1985, that they were sanctuary jurisdictions?
(a) Olympia, Washington, and Portland, Oregan.
(b) New York and Los Angeles.
(c) Chicago, Berkeley, and Saint Paul.
(d) Cambridge and Madison.

11. How long might Oscar Romero's Sunday sermons last?
(a) 2 1/2 hours.
(b) 1 1/2 hours.
(c) 1 hour.
(d) 2 hours.

12. Where was Alfredo Cristiani, the head of the Alianza Republicana Nacionalists (ARENA), educated?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Berkley.
(d) Georgetown.

13. What gang territory did Eddie Anzora live in?
(a) Harpys.
(b) Crips.
(c) Bloods.
(d) Triad.

14. Eventually how much of El Salvador's population would be living in the U.S.?
(a) One fifth.
(b) One eighth.
(c) About a third.
(d) Almost a quarter.

15. How far was La Clinica, the clinic Romagoza helped run, from the White House?
(a) 5 miles.
(b) 1 1/2 miles.
(c) 3 miles.
(d) 2 1/2 miles.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1984, how many Salvadorans and Guatemalan asylum seekers were being rejected?

2. In 1980 in what city were all the nuns and priests said to be in league with the gurrillas?

3. When Fife became a coyote, what was the punishment for every "alien" (68) he helped cross the border?

4. How old was Juan Romagoza's daughter when he escaped his captors?

5. In 1984 how many troops did the Salvadoran military have boosted by $1 million from the U.S.?

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