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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Leonel's story about the businessmen's negotiations with the peasants, what do the businessmen refuse to give the peasants?
(a) Coffee.
(b) A bar of gold.
(c) A cow.
(d) Toilet paper.

2. What was Forche doing the first time she met her husband?
(a) Trying to light a burner on a stove.
(b) Writing at her house.
(c) Protesting the war.
(d) Watering plants.

3. Who does Leonel tell Forche are some of the prisoners at Ahuachapan?
(a) Academics.
(b) Workers.
(c) Poets.
(d) Political prisoners.

4. Which of the following friends does Forche experience great danger with in El Salvador?
(a) Luisa.
(b) Victoria.
(c) Angelica.
(d) Rosa.

5. Who does Leonel tell Forche to ask for inside the prison?
(a) Andre.
(b) Oscar.
(c) Ramon.
(d) Miguel.

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

7. Who chases Margarita and Forche one night by car?
(a) Leonel.
(b) A death squad.
(c) Margarita's husband.
(d) Harry Mattison.

8. Which religious figure was with Forche the only time she actually witnessed an abduction?
(a) Monsenor Smith.
(b) Monsenor Romero.
(c) Monsenor Alaki.
(d) Monsenor Urioste.

9. What does Leonel tell her about driving to the poorer neighborhoods during the rainy season?
(a) He only flies in planes during the rainy season instead of driving.
(b) He contracts a better driver to take him places.
(c) He needs to use his better car with bigger tires.
(d) It is impossible to drive, so he has to walk.

10. What did the campesinos do with the materials the U.S. sent for portable toilets?
(a) Used them to build restaurants.
(b) Threw them in the dump.
(c) Used them to build houses out of instead.
(d) Threw them in the ocean.

11. 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) Ships them out of the country.
(d) Keeps their ears.

12. 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.

13. Why does Leonel want to take Forche to Chichi?
(a) So she can meet a good friend of his.
(b) So she can see market day.
(c) So she can meet the president there.
(d) So she can learn how to do Mayan weaving.

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

15. Why did Salvadorans put rags and garbage on trees sometimes?
(a) To embarrass the tree in front of other trees if it failed to produce fruit.
(b) To help the tree grow.
(c) To help people with directions.
(d) To mark secret dwellings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Forche and Leonel go as soon as they returned to El Salvador from Guatemala?

2. What does the high-ranking official in the colonia tell Forche about her work on page 180?

3. Which French resistance poet does Forche admire?

4. What helps Margarita and Forche get away when they are chased by car on page 279?

5. What does Leonel tell Forche about revolutions?

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