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

2. What does Leonel ask the people farming his land to do in an effort to help them become more self-sufficient?
(a) Invest in the stock market.
(b) Form a cooperative.
(c) Make their children work on the farm, too.
(d) Use the black market.

3. What does Leonel tell Forche about the textiles in Guatemala?
(a) They are religiously significant.
(b) They are like stories where every figure speaks.
(c) They are coded communications to help with the revolution.
(d) The colors are made from special dyes.

4. Who guards the front entrance of the U.S. embassy in El Salvador?
(a) One Navy cadet.
(b) One dozen El Salvador military personnel.
(c) Two Air Force cadets.
(d) Two U.S. Marines in dress blues.

5. What awful sight does Forche see a patient suffering during her visit to the hospital in El Salvador?
(a) Flesh-eating bacteria.
(b) Septicemia.
(c) Maggots in a wound.
(d) Pain during childbirth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Leonel hear about the American ambassador to El Salvador's impressions of Forche?

2. What are the people who disappear without a trace called?

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

4. What does using the outdoor latrine in the campo remind Forche of?

5. What does the religious figure with Forche say they all must do for the person whose abduction they witnessed?

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