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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Leonel decide Carolyn should stay with Margarita?
(a) She can learn about Catholicism from Margarita.
(b) It is safer for her there.
(c) She will like Margarita better than the other people she has stayed with.
(d) She and Margarita can borrow each other's clothes.

2. What does Leonel say when Forche asks him why he is obsessed with the disappearance of one American?
(a) Because of how it might implicate Colonel Chacon.
(b) Because this American might have been a weapons expert.
(c) Because of how it might implicate Colonel Romero.
(d) Because this American was wealthy.

3. Who did Forche stay with in New Mexico in her early twenties?
(a) The Nightingales.
(b) The Goodmornings.
(c) The Goodyears.
(d) The Steadfasts.

4. What kind of vehicle do Forche and Leonel take on her first trip to the campo?
(a) The Hiace van.
(b) A pickup truck.
(c) A sports car.
(d) An open jeep.

5. What did Forche's friends say when she was considering her first trip to El Salvador?
(a) They urged her against it.
(b) They thought it would be a good way to meet a man.
(c) They thought she should go there on a religious mission.
(d) They said it would be good for her career.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leonel tell Forche about the living conditions of most Salvadorans after their visit to the campo?

2. What illness did Forche experience since childhood?

3. Which Central American poet did Forche translate work into English for when Forche was in her twenties?

4. How do the workers on Leonel's farm draw water from the drum?

5. What does the person who meets Forche at the airport on her first trip to El Salvador tell her about Leonel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Forche give up on the idea of a medical career as a young woman?

2. Why does Leonel tell Forche he can not work with people who drink?

3. What was Forche's experience observing and helping in Dr. Vicky's hospital?

4. What does Leonel tell Forche about the way poets are perceived in El Salvador?

5. What does Forche think about Leonel's daughters during the time they all stay with her in California?

6. What is Leonel's occupation, at least ostensibly, and what does Forche think about the way he does his work?

7. How does Forche feel that Leonel misunderstands her work as a poet?

8. What does Forche realize Leonel enjoys immensely during the time he stays with her in California?

9. What does Forche remember most about her grandmother Anna?

10. What did Forche first think the death squads were, and why did she think that?

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