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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 did Forche stay with in New Mexico in her early twenties?
(a) The Nightingales.
(b) The Goodyears.
(c) The Goodmornings.
(d) The Steadfasts.

2. Which of the following skills did Leonel possess?
(a) He was an Olympic-level swimmer.
(b) He was a world-class volleyball player.
(c) He was a champion marksman.
(d) He was a world-class singer.

3. What does Leonel tell Forche about her purse when they visit the colonia on page 177?
(a) To hide a tape recorder in her purse.
(b) To hide her purse in the bathroom.
(c) To hide a camera in her purse.
(d) To keep her purse with her at all times no matter what.

4. What does Forche smell in Leonel's house that she thinks is gas?
(a) Weapons components.
(b) Pet food.
(c) Chemicals meant to preserve food.
(d) Cosmoline, an anticorrosive for storing metal.

5. Which of the following did poet Pablo Neruda write about El Salvador?
(a) The blood of dead peasants has not dried.
(b) The nuns are at great risk.
(c) The stench of death is always in the air.
(d) The country is not yet ready to heal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Forche talk to the American ambassador to El Salvador about that was of no consequence but was just small talk?

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

3. Who chases Margarita and Forche one night by car?

4. What had Forche failed to do when she returned to El Salvador and things went badly wrong for her three times?

5. Where did Forche and Leonel go as soon as they returned to El Salvador from Guatemala?

(see the answer key)

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