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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Leonel tell Forche the health programs officer at the U.S. embassy primarily does?
(a) Move papers from one side of her desk to the other.
(b) Cover up crimes.
(c) Eat chocolate.
(d) Deliver babies.

2. What did Leonel hear about the American ambassador to El Salvador's impressions of Forche?
(a) He heard the ambassador was appalled by Forche.
(b) He heard the ambassador was impressed by Forche.
(c) He heard the ambassador liked Forche's writing.
(d) He heard the ambassador thought Forche's Spanish was terrible.

3. What is one of the things Leonel tells Forche Chacon does with his victims' bodies?
(a) Keeps their ears.
(b) Ships them out of the country.
(c) Feeds them to his dogs.
(d) Sells their organs.

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

5. Why does Leonel tell Forche not to pretend she is a nun?
(a) She does not look like a nun.
(b) She is not well-versed enough with Catholicism to pretend to be a nun.
(c) She could be found out, and the real nuns who had helped her could get in trouble.
(d) There are no nuns in El Salvador.

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

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

8. 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 a spy.
(c) Because he is so interested in military people.
(d) Because he likes all different kinds of people.

9. What does the religious figure with Forche say they all must do for the person whose abduction they witnessed?
(a) Take a photograph of the van that he was forced into.
(b) Pray for him.
(c) Track him.
(d) Call his family.

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

11. What does the fire in the barrio remind Forche about?
(a) A fire that killed her friend as a child.
(b) A fire that burned down her house as a child.
(c) A fire that burned down her dormitory in college.
(d) A recurring nightmare she had as a child of ashes and people who were burned.

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

13. What does Forche criticize Leonel for regarding the way he runs his farm?
(a) She says he should charge more for his coffee.
(b) She says he should provide his workers with better health care.
(c) She says he should not be so easy on his workers.
(d) She says he should just give the land to the laborers.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Leon tell Forche he never enters churches?

3. Why is Leonel against Forche going to Aguilares with the nuns?

4. Why does Leonel tell Forche not to drink the water at Fina's?

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

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