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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 63 - 138).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Margarita's maid?
(a) Allegra.
(b) Alma.
(c) Claribel.
(d) Aloma.

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

3. How does Leonel refer to Forche's pending visit to El Salvador?
(a) She will be a Red Cross volunteer.
(b) She will be a reverse Peace Corps volunteer.
(c) She will be a doctor's assistant.
(d) She will be a journalist.

4. What does Forche remember thinking when she and Leonel come upon the dismembered body in El Salvador on page 4?
(a) Will Forche and Leonel be the next to die?
(b) How was the man killed?
(c) Did the man have a family?
(d) Why do the men she is with not do something about the body?

5. What happened to the olive-oil bottle Forche's friend Maya sent her?
(a) It got stolen.
(b) It got lost in the mail.
(c) Maya never ended up sending it.
(d) It was broken.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the newspapers Leonel buys to read?

2. Who does Leonel bring with him on his first visit to Forche?

3. Who finally told Forche she should travel to El Salvador for the first time?

4. Which Central American poet did Forche translate work into English for when Forche was in her twenties?

5. Who is the doctor at the first hospital Leonel takes Forche to visit in El Salvador?

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