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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 do Leonel and his workers use to get water to his crop?
2. What part of Forche's past does she think is none of Leonel's business when she first meets him?
3. What happened to the olive-oil bottle Forche's friend Maya sent her?
4. What does Leonel smoke?
5. Which Turkish poet was Forche reading at the time she first met Leonel?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Forche first think the death squads were, and why did she think that?
2. What did Forche's experiences living in New Mexico when she was 23 teach her?
3. What had Forche's friend Maya told her about Leonel?
4. What does Forche realize Leonel enjoys immensely during the time he stays with her in California?
5. What does Forche remember most about her grandmother Anna?
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 does Forche think about Leonel's daughters during the time they all stay with her in California?
8. What does Forche think would have happened if she had not answered her door to Leonel in California on the first day he visited her?
9. What is Leonel's occupation, at least ostensibly, and what does Forche think about the way he does his work?
10. What is the loose connection between Forche and Leonel?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What are Forche's first impressions of Leonel's activities, friends, lifestyle, and place in society upon her first trip to El Salvador? Write an essay explaining your answer.
Essay Topic 2
Why is Leonel Gomez so fixated on the case of the American, Ronald Richardson, who disappeared some years earlier? Write an essay explaining your answer.
Essay Topic 3
How does Forche describe the fear she eventually begins to feel in El Salvador? How is it different from fear and from fearful situations she experiences both before and after her trips to that country? Write an essay explaining your answer.
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