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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 213 - 293).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which general does Leonel take Forche to see during the early days of her first visit to El Salvador?
(a) Medrano.
(b) Chacon.
(c) Romero.
(d) Pele.

4. How do the Mayans view time, according to Leonel?
(a) They are afraid of the future.
(b) They believe the right fortune-teller can change the present-day.
(c) The past is the most important thing to them.
(d) They do not distinguish between past, present, and future.

5. Which house did Forche stay in on her first nights in El Salvador?
(a) Claribel's house.
(b) Margarita's house.
(c) Blanca's house, which used to belong to a dictator.
(d) Leonel's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Margarita tell Forche she is safe from harm for the time being on page 276?

2. Who does Leonel have a poster of in his own house that Forche recognizes?

3. What does the American ambassador to El Salvador tell Forche when she asks him about Ronald Richardson?

4. What does the writer ask Forche to come in to the group's meeting to see on page 163?

5. What happened to the olive-oil bottle Forche's friend Maya sent her?

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