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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. Who does Leonel tell Forche usually sent actual supplies in aid to El Salvador?
(a) The British.
(b) The Irish.
(c) The Italians.
(d) The Swedes.

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

3. When do the death squads do their work?
(a) Early afternoon.
(b) At night.
(c) Any time of day or night.
(d) Early morning.

4. Why does Leon tell Forche he never enters churches?
(a) He is not a religious man.
(b) He hates holy water.
(c) He hates priests.
(d) He is barred from churches.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Which French resistance poet does Forche admire?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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