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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. Where does Forche meet Margarita for the first time?
(a) At a chuch.
(b) At a fancy restaurant.
(c) At the hospital.
(d) At a cafe that might have been near La UCA, the Catholic University.

2. Which Turkish poet was Forche reading at the time she first met Leonel?
(a) Tralap Patward.
(b) Nazim Hikmet.
(c) Wislawa Szyborska.
(d) Tacep Erdogan.

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

4. Why does Leonel tell Forche not to ask him who people are that he introduces her to?
(a) They are afraid of Americans.
(b) They would not want him to tell her.
(c) They are all bound to the military.
(d) They all have fake names anyway.

5. What does Leonel tell her about driving to the poorer neighborhoods during the rainy season?
(a) He needs to use his better car with bigger tires.
(b) He contracts a better driver to take him places.
(c) He only flies in planes during the rainy season instead of driving.
(d) It is impossible to drive, so he has to walk.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Leonel want to take Forche to Chichi?

2. What did the doctor at the first hospital Forche visits in El Salvador tell her before Forche goes to see it?

3. What does Leonel say when Forche accuses him of using her to gain access to people?

4. Which song do Forche and Leonel listen to in the car when he comes to pick her up after her first few nights in El Salvador?

5. What did Forche's friends say when she was considering her first trip to El Salvador?

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