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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Forche tell Leonel that Bud, Claribel's husband, told her about him?
(a) That Leonel is a con man.
(b) That Leonel works for the CIA.
(c) That Leonel is a priest.
(d) That Leonel is a mercenary.

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

6. 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) Invest in the stock market.
(c) Make their children work on the farm, too.
(d) Form a cooperative.

7. Why do the Salvadoran poets ask Forche not to use their real names if she publishes their poems?
(a) They are afraid of what the government would do to them if they found out they wrote the poems.
(b) They need to be able to leave the country and they will not be able to leave if people know they wrote the poems.
(c) They do not like their real names.
(d) They are ashamed of their work.

8. 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 at her house.
(c) With Forche's mother in Mighigan.
(d) With Forche's ex-husband in Ohio.

9. How old was Leonel at the time Forche was making all her trips back and forth to El Salvador?
(a) About 37.
(b) About 45.
(c) About 50.
(d) About 25.

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

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

12. Why does Leonel tell Forche not to drink the water at Fina's?
(a) It could be contaminated.
(b) It is too chlorinated.
(c) It is too hot.
(d) It is too cold.

13. Where did Forche and Leonel go as soon as they returned to El Salvador from Guatemala?
(a) The sugar cane fields.
(b) The theater.
(c) The coffee farm.
(d) The convent of the Sisters of Divine Providence.

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

15. Who does Leonel tell Forche usually sent actual supplies in aid to El Salvador?
(a) The Swedes.
(b) The Italians.
(c) The British.
(d) The Irish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the authorities in El Salvador after Margarita, even though they do not know her identity?

2. Who does Leonel have a poster of in his own house that Forche recognizes?

3. Who were most of the people Forche saw walking along the roadside in Guatemala?

4. What was Forche doing the first time she met her husband?

5. What does Leonel tell Forche about the textiles in Guatemala?

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