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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were most of the people Forche saw walking along the roadside in Guatemala?
(a) Pueblo Indians.
(b) Mayans.
(c) Salvadorans.
(d) Colombians.

2. Why does Leonel tell Forche he can not just give his land to his workers?
(a) They have to take it from him.
(b) He and his brother are co-owners of the land and his brother will not allow it.
(c) His mother would never forgive him for giving the land away.
(d) The law forbids him giving his land away.

3. Who visits Fina's village under cloak of darkness while Forche is there?
(a) A spy with the CIA.
(b) An American soldier.
(c) Oscar Romero.
(d) A young Catholic priest.

4. Where does Leonel stay for part of the time he spends in the United States on page 237?
(a) With Forche's mother in Mighigan.
(b) With Claribel at her house.
(c) With Forche's ex-husband in Ohio.
(d) With Forche at her house.

5. At what discount store does Forche buy supplies to take to El Salvador with her?
(a) Costco.
(b) Wolworth's.
(c) Gemco.
(d) K-Mart.

6. Who does Leonel have a poster of in his own house that Forche recognizes?
(a) Bob Dylan.
(b) Fidel Castro.
(c) Bob Marley.
(d) Che Guevara.

7. What was the visual warning of the Mano Blanca group?
(a) A white handprint on a building or wall.
(b) A severed finger left on a porch.
(c) A lock of hair from a prisoner of theirs taped to a door.
(d) A red X on a building or wall.

8. Why is Leonel against Forche going to Aguilares with the nuns?
(a) He does not want Forche traveling there and endangering the people she meets.
(b) He does not want Forche going there and meeting other men.
(c) He does not want Forche going there and misrepresenting him.
(d) He does not want Forche going there and speaking bad Spanish to people.

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

10. Why does Leonel tell Forche not to pretend she is a nun?
(a) She could be found out, and the real nuns who had helped her could get in trouble.
(b) There are no nuns in El Salvador.
(c) She is not well-versed enough with Catholicism to pretend to be a nun.
(d) She does not look like a nun.

11. Which French resistance poet does Forche admire?
(a) Bonaparte.
(b) Claude Bonet.
(c) Jean-Paul Sartre.
(d) Rene Char.

12. What is one of the things Leonel tells Forche Chacon does with his victims' bodies?
(a) Sells their organs.
(b) Feeds them to his dogs.
(c) Keeps their ears.
(d) Ships them out of the country.

13. What had Forche failed to do when she returned to El Salvador and things went badly wrong for her three times?
(a) Told Leonel where she was going.
(b) Follow the rules Leonel had set out for her.
(c) Take her gun with her.
(d) Spoken Spanish as Leonel had instructed.

14. Why does Leon tell Forche he never enters churches?
(a) He hates priests.
(b) He is barred from churches.
(c) He hates holy water.
(d) He is not a religious man.

15. What does Forche see inside the prison that upsets her immensely?
(a) Men kept in very small boxes.
(b) Sexual abuse.
(c) Men bleeding to death.
(d) Drug use.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Forche know the song Madre was about?

2. Why did Salvadorans put rags and garbage on trees sometimes?

3. Why does Leonel like to talk to so many different kinds of people from different classes?

4. What did the campesinos do with the materials the U.S. sent for portable toilets?

5. Who does Leonel tell Forche are some of the prisoners at Ahuachapan?

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