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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. Why does Leonel like to talk to so many different kinds of people from different classes?
(a) Because he is so interested in military people.
(b) Because he thinks the air of mystery it creates around him is advantageous.
(c) Because he likes all different kinds of people.
(d) Because he is a spy.

5. What does the writer ask Forche to come in to the group's meeting to see on page 163?
(a) A painting.
(b) A puppy.
(c) A newborn baby.
(d) A famous poet.

6. What idea from Machiavelli tell Forche on page 185?
(a) You need to bury your ego to achieve great things.
(b) With great power comes great responsibility.
(c) Many times, people have to die in order for progress to be made.
(d) Nothing great was ever achieved without danger.

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

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

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

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

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

12. What does Leonel tell Forche about her purse when they visit the colonia on page 177?
(a) To hide her purse in the bathroom.
(b) To hide a camera in her purse.
(c) To hide a tape recorder in her purse.
(d) To keep her purse with her at all times no matter what.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Forche criticize Leonel for regarding the way he runs his farm?

2. What does the fire in the barrio remind Forche about?

3. What did Forche talk to the American ambassador to El Salvador about that was of no consequence but was just small talk?

4. Why does Forche have to tie her sweater around her neck in the prison?

5. Why does Leonel's friend inside the prison advise Forche to take the drink he offers?

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