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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 tell Forche he can not just give his land to his workers?
(a) The law forbids him giving his land away.
(b) They have to take it from him.
(c) He and his brother are co-owners of the land and his brother will not allow it.
(d) His mother would never forgive him for giving the land away.

2. What is Forche embarrassed about when she stays at Fina's?
(a) Being sick.
(b) Having her period.
(c) Stripping and washing with the other women.
(d) Eating too much.

3. What does Leonel tell Forche the health programs officer at the U.S. embassy primarily does?
(a) Deliver babies.
(b) Cover up crimes.
(c) Move papers from one side of her desk to the other.
(d) Eat chocolate.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is another name for the Santa Ana winds?

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

4. Why does Leonel tell Forche not to pretend she is a nun?

5. What does Leonel ask the people farming his land to do in an effort to help them become more self-sufficient?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Leonel tell Forche about Colonel Chacon?

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

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