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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When do the death squads do their work?
(a) Any time of day or night.
(b) At night.
(c) Early afternoon.
(d) Early morning.

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

4. Why does Leonel take Forche to Ahuachapan?
(a) To observe the human rights abuses at the prison there.
(b) To meet his grandmother.
(c) To hike up a famous mountain.
(d) To eat the local cuisine.

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

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

7. 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) Make their children work on the farm, too.
(c) Form a cooperative.
(d) Use the black market.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who guards the front entrance of the U.S. embassy in El Salvador?

2. Why does Leonel tell Forche he can not just give his land to his workers?

3. What were the wars in Argentina and Chile referred to as?

4. What had Forche failed to do when she returned to El Salvador and things went badly wrong for her three times?

5. What particular drug does Forche buy in bulk to take to El Salvador?

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