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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. How old was Leonel at the time Forche was making all her trips back and forth to El Salvador?
(a) About 45.
(b) About 50.
(c) About 25.
(d) About 37.

2. Which French resistance poet does Forche admire?
(a) Bonaparte.
(b) Jean-Paul Sartre.
(c) Claude Bonet.
(d) Rene Char.

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

4. Which of the following friends does Forche experience great danger with in El Salvador?
(a) Luisa.
(b) Angelica.
(c) Rosa.
(d) Victoria.

5. What does Leonel tell Forche about her purse when they visit the colonia on page 177?
(a) To hide her purse in the bathroom.
(b) To hide a tape recorder in her purse.
(c) To hide a camera in her purse.
(d) To keep her purse with her at all times no matter what.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leonel think of Margarita's husband?

2. Where did Forche and Leonel go as soon as they returned to El Salvador from Guatemala?

3. What does the high-ranking official in the colonia tell Forche about her work on page 180?

4. What was the visual warning of the Mano Blanca group?

5. What does Leonel tell her about driving to the poorer neighborhoods during the rainy season?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Forche buy in large amounts in the discount store Gemco to take back to El Salvador with her?

2. What does Leonel tell Forche the Salvadorans did with the portable toilets the Americans tried to set up for them?

3. What happens to Forche and Margarita that shakes Forche to her core and produces great feelings of fear?

4. In San Salvador, what did a white handprint on a door or wall signify?

5. What did Forche come to think about Leonel during her many trips to El Salvador during the 1980s?

6. What does Leonel tell Forche about Colonel Chacon?

7. What does Forche come to understand about the nature of a person's life when that person joins a death squad?

8. How do Forche's friends in America react to her deepening interest in and commitment to El Salvador?

9. Why is Forche embarrassed when the women in the village she stays in all wash together from a spigot?

10. What does Forche tell Chenco, the young priest who comes to say mass at the poor village she stays in briefly, about why Leonel cares what North Americans think about El Salvador?

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