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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. Which of the following did poet Pablo Neruda write about El Salvador?
(a) The stench of death is always in the air.
(b) The blood of dead peasants has not dried.
(c) The country is not yet ready to heal.
(d) The nuns are at great risk.

2. Why do the Salvadoran poets ask Forche not to use their real names if she publishes their poems?
(a) They do not like their real names.
(b) They need to be able to leave the country and they will not be able to leave if people know they wrote the poems.
(c) They are ashamed of their work.
(d) They are afraid of what the government would do to them if they found out they wrote the poems.

3. What was Forche doing the first time she met her husband?
(a) Writing at her house.
(b) Watering plants.
(c) Trying to light a burner on a stove.
(d) Protesting the war.

4. What does the religious figure with Forche say they all must do for the person whose abduction they witnessed?
(a) Track him.
(b) Pray for him.
(c) Take a photograph of the van that he was forced into.
(d) Call his family.

5. What does Forche criticize Leonel for regarding the way he runs his farm?
(a) She says he should just give the land to the laborers.
(b) She says he should provide his workers with better health care.
(c) She says he should charge more for his coffee.
(d) She says he should not be so easy on his workers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Leonel want to take Forche to Chichi?

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

3. What does Leonel tell Forche about revolutions?

4. What does Leonel think of Margarita's husband?

5. Why are the authorities in El Salvador after Margarita, even though they do not know her identity?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Forche's experiences with Vietnam mostly consist of?

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. Why does Margarita suggest that Forche borrow a dress and good shoes from her?

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