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

2. Who does Leonel tell Forche are some of the prisoners at Ahuachapan?
(a) Political prisoners.
(b) Academics.
(c) Workers.
(d) Poets.

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

4. How was General Chacon killed?
(a) He was shot by his own son.
(b) He was stabbed by his wife.
(c) He was poisoned by his mistress.
(d) He was ambushed by his own military.

5. In Leonel's story about the businessmen's negotiations with the peasants, what do the businessmen refuse to give the peasants?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Toilet paper.
(c) A cow.
(d) A bar of gold.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Forche smell in Leonel's house that she thinks is gas?

2. What did Forche know the song Madre was about?

3. Who does Leonel have a poster of in his own house that Forche recognizes?

4. What was Forche doing the first time she met her husband?

5. What particular drug does Forche buy in bulk to take to El Salvador?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Leonel tell Forche about Colonel Chacon?

6. Why do the women near Nabaj give Leonel their intricate weavings to take with him?

7. What recurring nightmare does Forche have as a child that she is reminded of again in El Salvador?

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

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

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

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