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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 295 - 384).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the people who disappear without a trace called?
(a) Desaparecidos.
(b) The Fallen.
(c) Desperados.
(d) The Lost.

2. What does using the outdoor latrine in the campo remind Forche of?
(a) Her days in the Peace Corps.
(b) Her trip to Mallorca.
(c) Her childhood summers in Michigan.
(d) Her days in New Mexio.

3. How does Margarita behave towards Forche at first?
(a) With indifference.
(b) With suspicion.
(c) With anger.
(d) With great kindness.

4. What is one effect of Forche's serious illness that she has to go to the hospital for in El Salvador?
(a) She vomits.
(b) She bleeds profusely.
(c) She experiences wracking coughs.
(d) She hallucinates.

5. What is one of the reasons Leonel tells Forche it will be difficult to convince other Americans about what she has seen in El Salvador?
(a) They think there is no way it could be worse than Vietnam.
(b) It is not in their interests to believe her.
(c) It is not in their nature to believe her.
(d) They are already tired of war.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are Forche and Mattison living at the time they take in the former Salvadoran death squad member?

2. How do the workers on Leonel's farm draw water from the drum?

3. Where was Monsenor Oscar Romero assassinated?

4. Why does Leonel like to talk to so many different kinds of people from different classes?

5. Who were most of the people Forche saw walking along the roadside in Guatemala?

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