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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. What awful sight does Forche see a patient suffering during her visit to the hospital in El Salvador?
(a) Septicemia.
(b) Flesh-eating bacteria.
(c) Pain during childbirth.
(d) Maggots in a wound.

2. Who was Forche's childhood neighbor who came back from Vietnam a changed person?
(a) Peter.
(b) Joseph.
(c) Paul.
(d) Matthew.

3. Where is Forche living when Leonel first comes to her door?
(a) Canada.
(b) Washington D.C.
(c) Texas.
(d) California.

4. What does Forche say when Leonel asks if she is a Catholic?
(a) She was never Catholic.
(b) She is Jewish now.
(c) She is fallen.
(d) She studies Islam.

5. What seems to change Margarita's mind about Forche?
(a) Forche shows that she had medical skills.
(b) Forche saves one of Margarita's daughters from danger.
(c) Forche comes to the hospital when Margarita's aunt is killed in a car accident.
(d) Forche loans Margarita money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the doctor at the first hospital Forche visits in El Salvador tell her before Forche goes to see it?

2. In what year does Forche make her first trip to El Salvador?

3. Who did Forche stay with in New Mexico in her early twenties?

4. What is one of the newspapers Leonel buys to read?

5. Which of the following skills did Leonel possess?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Leonel say to Forche when she first arrives in El Salvador on her first trip that makes her think her travel there was a mistake?

2. What is Forche's reaction when Leonel asks her if she is a Catholic?

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

4. What nickname does Leonel often refer to Forche by and where did it originate?

5. How does the first scene Forche describes in El Salvador, on pages 3 - 4, set the tone for the rest of the book?

6. What does Leonel do immediately when he arrives at Forche's house and continue doing for several days?

7. What memory does Forche's first trip to an outdoor latrine in El Salvador trigger for her?

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

9. What does Forche want to do when she and Leonel come upon two dead men in the street for the first time? (108).

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

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