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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. Why does Leonel tell Forche they cannot move the bodies they find in the street?
(a) The families would be upset.
(b) It is disrespectful to move bodies from the street.
(c) They do not know who the people are, so they do not know where to move them to.
(d) They are too heavy and it is too dangerous.

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

3. Which of the following did poet Pablo Neruda write about El Salvador?
(a) The country is not yet ready to heal.
(b) The blood of dead peasants has not dried.
(c) The stench of death is always in the air.
(d) The nuns are at great risk.

4. What did Leonel hear about the American ambassador to El Salvador's impressions of Forche?
(a) He heard the ambassador was appalled by Forche.
(b) He heard the ambassador thought Forche's Spanish was terrible.
(c) He heard the ambassador was impressed by Forche.
(d) He heard the ambassador liked Forche's writing.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Leonel against Forche going to Aguilares with the nuns?

3. What is Forche embarrassed about when she stays at Fina's?

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

5. What is the first house Forche sees in the campo like?

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