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

2. Where does Leonel stay for part of the time he spends in the United States on page 237?
(a) With Forche at her house.
(b) With Forche's mother in Mighigan.
(c) With Forche's ex-husband in Ohio.
(d) With Claribel at her house.

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

4. Why does Leonel tell Forche not to drink the water at Fina's?
(a) It is too hot.
(b) It is too cold.
(c) It is too chlorinated.
(d) It could be contaminated.

5. Where do Forche and Leonel cross into Guatemala?
(a) At the port of Hilala.
(b) At Guadalahara.
(c) At Rio Canal.
(d) At Las Chinamas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Leonel tell Forche he can not just give his land to his workers?

2. What does Leonel ask Greg, the American engineer in Guatemala, to do for them?

3. How old was Leonel at the time Forche was making all her trips back and forth to El Salvador?

4. Which of the following did poet Pablo Neruda write about El Salvador?

5. What did Forche talk to the American ambassador to El Salvador about that was of no consequence but was just small talk?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Forche see in the prison Ahuachapan that shakes her to her core?

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

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

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

6. 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?

7. What does it mean to hang things on a tree in certain parts of El Salvador?

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

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

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

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