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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) 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.

2. What does Leonel think of Margarita's husband?
(a) He detests him.
(b) He thinks he is good at his job.
(c) He thinks he is a good father.
(d) He describes him as a decent man.

3. Who works in the hospital alongside the regular doctor when Forche visits?
(a) Some military men.
(b) Interns.
(c) Ana, a young campesina with no medical training.
(d) A team of trained professionals.

4. What does the writer ask Forche to come in to the group's meeting to see on page 163?
(a) A newborn baby.
(b) A painting.
(c) A famous poet.
(d) A puppy.

5. Why are the authorities in El Salvador after Margarita, even though they do not know her identity?
(a) She broadcasts on the Church's radio station, YSAX.
(b) She is the daughter of a wealthy general and they want to kidnap her.
(c) She donates a lot of money to the resistance.
(d) She has spray-painted provocative art all over the city.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Forche often eat for breakfast in El Salvador?

2. Where did Forche and Leonel go as soon as they returned to El Salvador from Guatemala?

3. What does Leonel tell Forcche the letters RDX stand for?

4. Why do the Salvadoran poets ask Forche not to use their real names if she publishes their poems?

5. Why does Leon tell Forche he never enters churches?

(see the answer key)

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