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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 Leonel tell Forche about her purse when they visit the colonia on page 177?
(a) To keep her purse with her at all times no matter what.
(b) To hide a camera in her purse.
(c) To hide her purse in the bathroom.
(d) To hide a tape recorder in her purse.

2. Why does Leonel take Forche to Ahuachapan?
(a) To hike up a famous mountain.
(b) To observe the human rights abuses at the prison there.
(c) To meet his grandmother.
(d) To eat the local cuisine.

3. What does Leonel ask the people farming his land to do in an effort to help them become more self-sufficient?
(a) Use the black market.
(b) Invest in the stock market.
(c) Form a cooperative.
(d) Make their children work on the farm, too.

4. Which French resistance poet does Forche admire?
(a) Bonaparte.
(b) Jean-Paul Sartre.
(c) Rene Char.
(d) Claude Bonet.

5. How does Forche write much of her work in El Salvador?
(a) In pen.
(b) In crayon.
(c) In pencil.
(d) In marker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the religious figure with Forche say they all must do for the person whose abduction they witnessed?

2. What does Leonel tell Forche the health programs officer at the U.S. embassy primarily does?

3. When do the death squads do their work?

4. Where does Leonel stay for part of the time he spends in the United States on page 237?

5. What does Forche smell in Leonel's house that she thinks is gas?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do Forche's friends in America react to her deepening interest in and commitment to El Salvador?

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

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

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

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

7. What happens to Forche that lands her in a Salvadoran hospital and produces hallucinations?

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

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

10. 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?

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