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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first house Forche sees in the campo like?
(a) Luxurious, with marble polished floors and all the modern comforts.
(b) It is made entirely of cardboard.
(c) Very basic, with a packed mud floor and walls of twigs and mud bricks.
(d) Sturdy, with concrete floor and walls.

2. Where does Margarita work?
(a) The Catholic University, La UCA.
(b) The bank.
(c) The solicitor's office.
(d) The hospital.

3. What does Forche say when Leonel asks if she is a Catholic?
(a) She is Jewish now.
(b) She is fallen.
(c) She was never Catholic.
(d) She studies Islam.

4. How does Leonel refer to Forche's pending visit to El Salvador?
(a) She will be a Red Cross volunteer.
(b) She will be a journalist.
(c) She will be a doctor's assistant.
(d) She will be a reverse Peace Corps volunteer.

5. How did Leonel get from El Salvador to Forche's house when he visits her for the first time?
(a) He took a ferry.
(b) He drove.
(c) He took an airplane.
(d) He walked.

6. What is Forche's nickname from her time in New Mexico?
(a) Papu.
(b) Chocon.
(c) Darling.
(d) Bonita.

7. Who meets Forche at the airport on her first trip to El Salvador?
(a) John Taylor.
(b) Margarita.
(c) Oscar Romero.
(d) Leonel.

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

9. In what year does Forche make her first trip to El Salvador?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1978.

10. Why does Leonel decide Carolyn should stay with Margarita?
(a) She will like Margarita better than the other people she has stayed with.
(b) She and Margarita can borrow each other's clothes.
(c) It is safer for her there.
(d) She can learn about Catholicism from Margarita.

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

12. Where had Forche's friend Maya convinced her to travel with her when Forche was 27?
(a) China.
(b) Russia.
(c) France.
(d) Mallorca.

13. Who works in the hospital alongside the regular doctor when Forche visits?
(a) Some military men.
(b) A team of trained professionals.
(c) Interns.
(d) Ana, a young campesina with no medical training.

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

15. How do the workers on Leonel's farm draw water from the drum?
(a) Using a system with a stationary bicycle.
(b) Using horses.
(c) Using strong hoses.
(d) Using mules.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Leonel say poets are perceived in El Salvador?

2. What did Forche's father make her do when she told him she wanted to be a poet?

3. What is another name for the death squads?

4. Who is Margarita's maid?

5. What seems to change Margarita's mind about Forche?

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