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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. What does the fire in the barrio remind Forche about?
(a) A fire that killed her friend as a child.
(b) A fire that burned down her house as a child.
(c) A recurring nightmare she had as a child of ashes and people who were burned.
(d) A fire that burned down her dormitory in college.

2. Who visits Fina's village under cloak of darkness while Forche is there?
(a) A young Catholic priest.
(b) Oscar Romero.
(c) An American soldier.
(d) A spy with the CIA.

3. What does Leonel tell Forcche the letters RDX stand for?
(a) Ready Department Expletive.
(b) Research Department X-Ray.
(c) Research Department Explosive.
(d) Really Dismal Expat.

4. Why does Leonel tell Forche not to pretend she is a nun?
(a) She does not look like a nun.
(b) There are no nuns in El Salvador.
(c) She is not well-versed enough with Catholicism to pretend to be a nun.
(d) She could be found out, and the real nuns who had helped her could get in trouble.

5. Which of the following friends does Forche experience great danger with in El Salvador?
(a) Rosa.
(b) Angelica.
(c) Luisa.
(d) Victoria.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Salvadoran poets ask Forche not to use their real names if she publishes their poems?

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

3. What does Forche tell Leonel that Bud, Claribel's husband, told her about him?

4. Who does Leonel tell Forche to ask for inside the prison?

5. What does Leonel tell Forche about revolutions?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Leonel tell Forche about Colonel Chacon?

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

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

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

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

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