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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. Who works in the hospital alongside the regular doctor when Forche visits?
(a) Ana, a young campesina with no medical training.
(b) A team of trained professionals.
(c) Interns.
(d) Some military men.

2. In what year does Forche make her first trip to El Salvador?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1978.

3. What do Leonel and his workers use to get water to his crop?
(a) A long hose.
(b) Metal backpacks to carry the water.
(c) Traditional watering cans.
(d) Fire trucks.

4. Who does Leonel bring with him on his first visit to Forche?
(a) His wife.
(b) His two daughters.
(c) His mother.
(d) His brother.

5. What seems to change Margarita's mind about Forche?
(a) Forche loans Margarita money.
(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 shows that she had medical skills.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Margarita's maid?

2. How does Margarita behave towards Forche at first?

3. Who does Leonel ask Forche to write to to help vouch for him?

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

5. Which of the following skills did Leonel possess?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What had Forche's friend Maya told her about Leonel?

7. What is the loose connection between Forche and Leonel?

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

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

10. 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?

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