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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 does Leonel tell Forche about revolutions?
(a) They are futile.
(b) They do not go according to plan.
(c) They are expensive.
(d) They must come from the peasants.

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

3. Why is Leonel against Forche going to Aguilares with the nuns?
(a) He does not want Forche going there and misrepresenting him.
(b) He does not want Forche traveling there and endangering the people she meets.
(c) He does not want Forche going there and meeting other men.
(d) He does not want Forche going there and speaking bad Spanish to people.

4. What does the high-ranking official in the colonia tell Forche about her work on page 180?
(a) She is very young to be doing what she is doing.
(b) That she needs to stop immediately.
(c) That she needs to go back to the U.S.A. and take up her professorship again.
(d) That she needs to write as much as she can about what she sees in El Salvador.

5. Why does Leonel want to take Forche to Chichi?
(a) So she can meet the president there.
(b) So she can see market day.
(c) So she can meet a good friend of his.
(d) So she can learn how to do Mayan weaving.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Leonel hear about the American ambassador to El Salvador's impressions of Forche?

2. Who visits Fina's village under cloak of darkness while Forche is there?

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

4. What had Forche failed to do when she returned to El Salvador and things went badly wrong for her three times?

5. Why does Margarita tell Forche she is safe from harm for the time being on page 276?

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

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

4. What does Leonel tell Forche when she rebukes him for not giving some of his land to the peasants?

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

6. What does Leonel ask the engineer for on page 210 that the engineer, Greg, thinks is outlandish?

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

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

9. What does Forche think about Leonel's apparent obsession with Donald Richardson?

10. Why does Leonel reject the idea of Forche pretending she is a nun while in El Salvador?

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