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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. Who chases Margarita and Forche one night by car?
(a) A death squad.
(b) Harry Mattison.
(c) Margarita's husband.
(d) Leonel.

2. Why is Leonel against Forche going to Aguilares with the nuns?
(a) He does not want Forche going there and meeting other men.
(b) He does not want Forche traveling there and endangering the people she meets.
(c) He does not want Forche going there and speaking bad Spanish to people.
(d) He does not want Forche going there and misrepresenting him.

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

4. When do the death squads do their work?
(a) Early morning.
(b) Early afternoon.
(c) At night.
(d) Any time of day or night.

5. What does Leonel have tucked inside a magazine in his car that shocks Forche at first?
(a) A can of mace.
(b) A handgun.
(c) A vial of illegal drugs.
(d) A machete.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Forche meet Margarita for the first time?

3. Who does Leonel tell Forche to ask for inside the prison?

4. What is another name for the death squads?

5. What does the fire in the barrio remind Forche about?

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