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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 Forche borrow from Margarita that comes in handy later?
(a) Money.
(b) A kite.
(c) A dress, shoes, and lipstick.
(d) Feminine hygiene products.

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

3. What helps Margarita and Forche get away when they are chased by car on page 279?
(a) Margarita's husband.
(b) Other drivers who see what is happening to them.
(c) Leonel.
(d) Harry Mattison.

4. What does Forche tell Leonel that Bud, Claribel's husband, told her about him?
(a) That Leonel is a con man.
(b) That Leonel is a priest.
(c) That Leonel works for the CIA.
(d) That Leonel is a mercenary.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did the campesinos do with the materials the U.S. sent for portable toilets?

4. Why did Salvadorans put rags and garbage on trees sometimes?

5. What had Forche failed to do when she returned to El Salvador and things went badly wrong for her three times?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. What changes Forche's feelings about meeting with the Salvadoran writers immediately after her horrific visit to Ahuachapan?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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