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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Leonel think of Margarita's husband?
(a) He detests him.
(b) He thinks he is a good father.
(c) He describes him as a decent man.
(d) He thinks he is good at his job.

3. Which of the following books did Leonel stay up late reading during his visit to Forche in the U.S.?
(a) The Military Art of People's War.
(b) The Prince of Tides.
(c) The Westing Game.
(d) The Catcher in the Rye.

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

5. What does Leonel ask Greg, the American engineer in Guatemala, to do for them?
(a) Design and make a collapsible, transportable bridge.
(b) Design a new weapon for them.
(c) To make a water purifier for them.
(d) To make a heating device for them so they can camp more comfortably.

6. Where does Leonel ask Forche to fly to meet him once she has returned to the U.S. on page 231?
(a) Texas.
(b) California.
(c) Michigan.
(d) Colombia.

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

8. Why are the authorities in El Salvador after Margarita, even though they do not know her identity?
(a) She broadcasts on the Church's radio station, YSAX.
(b) She has spray-painted provocative art all over the city.
(c) She is the daughter of a wealthy general and they want to kidnap her.
(d) She donates a lot of money to the resistance.

9. Why does Forche have to tie her sweater around her neck in the prison?
(a) To hide her unusual birthmark.
(b) To keep her pulse from quickening.
(c) A prisoner cuts her and she is bleeding.
(d) She is so upset that she broke out in hives and does not want anyone to see.

10. What does Leonel tell Forche about revolutions?
(a) They are futile.
(b) They must come from the peasants.
(c) They are expensive.
(d) They do not go according to plan.

11. What particular drug does Forche buy in bulk to take to El Salvador?
(a) Mifepristone.
(b) Correctol.
(c) Naxolone.
(d) Immodium.

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

13. 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 thinks the air of mystery it creates around him is advantageous.
(d) Because he likes all different kinds of people.

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

15. What does the American ambassador to El Salvador tell Forche when she asks him about Ronald Richardson?
(a) He says he has put his best investigator on the case.
(b) He says he is working very hard to figure out the case.
(c) He says he has already solved the case.
(d) He says he considers Richardson's disappearance unsolvable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the writer ask Forche to come in to the group's meeting to see on page 163?

2. At what discount store does Forche buy supplies to take to El Salvador with her?

3. Who does Leonel tell Forche usually sent actual supplies in aid to El Salvador?

4. Who does Leonel tell Forche to ask for inside the prison?

5. Which of the following friends does Forche experience great danger with in El Salvador?

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