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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. Why is Leonel against Forche going to Aguilares with the nuns?
(a) He does not want Forche going there and meeting other men.
(b) He does not want Forche going there and misrepresenting him.
(c) He does not want Forche traveling there and endangering the people she meets.
(d) He does not want Forche going there and speaking bad Spanish to people.

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

3. Who guards the front entrance of the U.S. embassy in El Salvador?
(a) One Navy cadet.
(b) One dozen El Salvador military personnel.
(c) Two U.S. Marines in dress blues.
(d) Two Air Force cadets.

4. Who does Leonel have a poster of in his own house that Forche recognizes?
(a) Che Guevara.
(b) Fidel Castro.
(c) Bob Dylan.
(d) Bob Marley.

5. What particular drug does Forche buy in bulk to take to El Salvador?
(a) Naxolone.
(b) Correctol.
(c) Mifepristone.
(d) Immodium.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the things Leonel tells Forche Chacon does with his victims' bodies?

2. Who does Leonel tell Forche usually sent actual supplies in aid to El Salvador?

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

4. What does Leonel tell Forche about revolutions?

5. Who does Leonel tell Forche are some of the prisoners at Ahuachapan?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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