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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Forche tell Leonel sarcastically is her third lesson?
(a) He is always hungry.
(b) She is going home right then.
(c) He does not have to condescend to her.
(d) He needs to give her at least some idea of his plans.

2. Who is Margarita's maid?
(a) Allegra.
(b) Alma.
(c) Claribel.
(d) Aloma.

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

4. Why does Leonel tell Forche they cannot move the bodies they find in the street?
(a) The families would be upset.
(b) They do not know who the people are, so they do not know where to move them to.
(c) They are too heavy and it is too dangerous.
(d) It is disrespectful to move bodies from the street.

5. Which Salvadoran military figure does Leonel have a burning hatred for?
(a) Colonel Jose Francisco Rene Chacon.
(b) Colonel Matteo Rodriguez.
(c) Colonel Oscar Romero.
(d) Colonel Jaques Fredrico Ramon.

6. Which general does Leonel take Forche to see during the early days of her first visit to El Salvador?
(a) Chacon.
(b) Pele.
(c) Romero.
(d) Medrano.

7. What seems to change Margarita's mind about Forche?
(a) Forche comes to the hospital when Margarita's aunt is killed in a car accident.
(b) Forche shows that she had medical skills.
(c) Forche saves one of Margarita's daughters from danger.
(d) Forche loans Margarita money.

8. What are the people who disappear without a trace called?
(a) Desperados.
(b) Desaparecidos.
(c) The Fallen.
(d) The Lost.

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

10. 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 all have fake names anyway.
(c) They would not want him to tell her.
(d) They are all bound to the military.

11. How does Margarita behave towards Forche at first?
(a) With indifference.
(b) With great kindness.
(c) With suspicion.
(d) With anger.

12. What did Forche's father make her do when she told him she wanted to be a poet?
(a) Get a degree in chemistry instead.
(b) Learn to type.
(c) Take engineering classes.
(d) Go to beauty school.

13. What is the word for a shack with walls made from corrugated metal?
(a) Villagio.
(b) Mortella.
(c) Isla.
(d) Lamina.

14. What part of Forche's past does she think is none of Leonel's business when she first meets him?
(a) Her children.
(b) Her romantic life.
(c) Her experiences with Vietnam.
(d) Her family history.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of car does Leonel drive?

2. How did Leonel get from El Salvador to Forche's house when he visits her for the first time?

3. What do Leonel and his workers use to get water to his crop?

4. Which grandmother of Forche's led a nomadic and unsettled life?

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

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