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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 139 - 211).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Forche's father make her do when she told him she wanted to be a poet?
(a) Get a degree in chemistry instead.
(b) Take engineering classes.
(c) Go to beauty school.
(d) Learn to type.

2. What does Forche say when Leonel asks if she is a Catholic?
(a) She is fallen.
(b) She studies Islam.
(c) She was never Catholic.
(d) She is Jewish now.

3. What does Leonel use to illustrate his lessons to Forche upon their first meeting?
(a) Photographs.
(b) Paintings.
(c) White butcher paper.
(d) A computer program.

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

5. What does the person who meets Forche at the airport on her first trip to El Salvador tell her about Leonel?
(a) He is a spy.
(b) He is involved with the military.
(c) He is dangerous.
(d) He is a pretty strange guy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the word for a shack with walls made from corrugated metal?

2. Who was Forche's childhood neighbor who came back from Vietnam a changed person?

3. What idea from Machiavelli tell Forche on page 185?

4. What does Forche borrow from Margarita that comes in handy later?

5. Why does Leonel decide Carolyn should stay with Margarita?

(see the answer key)

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