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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 had Forche failed to do when she returned to El Salvador and things went badly wrong for her three times?
(a) Take her gun with her.
(b) Follow the rules Leonel had set out for her.
(c) Told Leonel where she was going.
(d) Spoken Spanish as Leonel had instructed.

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

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

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

5. How does Forche write much of her work in El Salvador?
(a) In pen.
(b) In crayon.
(c) In marker.
(d) In pencil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leonel tell Forche about her purse when they visit the colonia on page 177?

2. Who does Leonel tell Forche are some of the prisoners at Ahuachapan?

3. What is Forche embarrassed about when she stays at Fina's?

4. Why does Leonel like to talk to so many different kinds of people from different classes?

5. Why did Salvadorans put rags and garbage on trees sometimes?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Forche understand the phrase "take care of this" to mean when used by soldiers in El Salvador?

3. What does seeing Leonel with a mysterious woman seem to make Forche realize about her feelings for him?

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

5. What changes Forche's feelings about meeting with the Salvadoran writers immediately after her horrific visit to Ahuachapan?

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

7. What does Leonel tell Forche about Colonel Chacon?

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

9. What happens to Forche that lands her in a Salvadoran hospital and produces hallucinations?

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

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