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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Where does Leonel stay for part of the time he spends in the United States on page 237?
(a) With Forche at her house.
(b) With Claribel at her house.
(c) With Forche's mother in Mighigan.
(d) With Forche's ex-husband in Ohio.

5. 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 good at his job.
(d) He thinks he is a good father.

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

7. What does Leonel tell Forche about revolutions?
(a) They must come from the peasants.
(b) They do not go according to plan.
(c) They are expensive.
(d) They are futile.

8. What is another name for the Santa Ana winds?
(a) The devil winds.
(b) The Western winds.
(c) The spirit winds.
(d) The wild winds.

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

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

11. What helps Margarita and Forche get away when they are chased by car on page 279?
(a) Harry Mattison.
(b) Other drivers who see what is happening to them.
(c) Leonel.
(d) Margarita's husband.

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

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

14. What does Forche borrow from Margarita that comes in handy later?
(a) Feminine hygiene products.
(b) A kite.
(c) Money.
(d) A dress, shoes, and lipstick.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Forche know the song Madre was about?

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

4. Why does Leonel tell Forche not to pretend she is a nun?

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

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