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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 295 - 384).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Leonel like to talk to so many different kinds of people from different classes?
(a) Because he is a spy.
(b) Because he is so interested in military people.
(c) Because he likes all different kinds of people.
(d) Because he thinks the air of mystery it creates around him is advantageous.

3. How do the Mayans view time, according to Leonel?
(a) They are afraid of the future.
(b) The past is the most important thing to them.
(c) They believe the right fortune-teller can change the present-day.
(d) They do not distinguish between past, present, and future.

4. Who does Leonel ask Forche to write to to help vouch for him?
(a) The U.S. ambassador to El Salvador.
(b) Leonel's ex-wife.
(c) Claribel, Forche's friend.
(d) Tom Anderson, another American writer.

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

2. Which friend asks Forche and Mattison to take in the former death squad member temporarily?

3. Why does Leonel tell Forche not to ask him who people are that he introduces her to?

4. What does Leonel make Forche for breakfast when he stays at her house in California?

5. Where are Forche and Mattison living at the time they take in the former Salvadoran death squad member?

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