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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Leonel smoke?
2. What is the word for a shack with walls made from corrugated metal?
3. Where does Margarita work?
4. What does the person who meets Forche at the airport on her first trip to El Salvador tell her about Leonel?
5. What did Forche's father make her do when she told him she wanted to be a poet?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Forche think about Leonel's daughters during the time they all stay with her in California?
2. How does Forche feel that Leonel misunderstands her work as a poet?
3. What does Forche want to do when she and Leonel come upon two dead men in the street for the first time? (108).
4. What does Forche think Margarita Herrera's first impression of her is?
5. Why does Forche give up on the idea of a medical career as a young woman?
6. What does Leonel say to Forche when she first arrives in El Salvador on her first trip that makes her think her travel there was a mistake?
7. What is Forche's reaction when Leonel asks her if she is a Catholic?
8. What does Forche realize Leonel enjoys immensely during the time he stays with her in California?
9. What is Leonel's occupation, at least ostensibly, and what does Forche think about the way he does his work?
10. Why does Leonel take Forche to a wide range of places, including elegant colonias and the shacks of poor campesinos?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How do Forche's experiences with Dr. Vicky Guzman at her clinic change and expand her view of what life is like in El Salvador? Write an essay explaining your answer.
Essay Topic 2
Why does Leonel tell Forche that she may have a hard time convincing other Americans that what she has seen in El Salvador, and specifically, how brutal and violent the atmosphere is? Are Leonel's warnings to Forche borne out in her actual experiences? Write an essay explaining your answer.
Essay Topic 3
What does Forche learn about both Leonel and agricultural life in El Salvador when he takes her to visit his coffee farm? (100). What does Forche think about the innovations and tactics Leonel and his workers created to help make their work more efficient? Write an essay explaining your answer.
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